Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-12
Where pearls and rubies fall in a shower
That would frighten Jupiter Ammon.
] need not tell
How IL befell,

The King Of the Cubans s,rolled this way
King January's his name they say
And fell in love with Princess May,
The reigning belle of Manhattan
Nor how began to smirk and sue,
And dress as lovers who come too WOO,
Or as Max Maretzek and Julien do,
When they sit full-bloomed in the ladies' view,
And flourish the wondrous baton.
He wasn't one Of our Polish mobiles,
Whose presence their country somehow trouble
And so our cities receive them.
Nor one Of your make believe Spanish grandee
Who ply our daughters with lies and candies
Until the poor girls believe them.
No, he was no such Charlatan--
Full of gasconade and bravado,
Count de Hoboken Flash.in-the-pan-
But regular rich Don Estabau
Santa Cruz de la Muscovado
Senior Grandissmo Oviedo
He owned the rental of half Havana
And all Matanzas and Santa Anna,
Rich as lie was, could hardly hold
a candle to light the mines of gold
Our Cuban possessed, chock full of diggers
And broad plantations that 10 round figures
! Were stocked with at least FIVE thousand nigpers
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may +"
The Senior swoTe to-carry the day
To capture the beautiful Princess May,
With his battery of treasure
Velvet and lace she should not lack
Tiffany, Haughwout Ball e. Black
Geun and Stewart his suit should back,
And come aud go at her pleasure
jet and lava--silver and gold
Garnets-emerads rare to behold
Diamonds-sapphires- untold
All were hers, TO have and to hold
Enough to 6ll peck measure
He didn't bring all his forces on
AT once, but like crafty old Don,
Who many heart had fought and won,
Kept bidding little higher;
And every time he made his bid
Twas written down
For the good of the town,
By Jeems of Daily Flyer.
A coach and horses you'd think would buy
For the Don, an easy victory;
But slowly our Princess yielded
diamond necklace caught her eye,
But wreath Of pearls first made her sigh.
She knew the worth of each maiden glance,
Aud like young colts that curvet and prance,
She led the Don deuce of q dance,
In spite of the wealth he welded.
She stood such fire of silks and laces,
Jewels and golden dressing-cases,
And ruby brooches, and Jets and pearls,
That every one of her dainty curIs
Brought the price of hundred common girls
Folks thought the lass demented
But at last wonderful diamond ring, ...
A regular Kohl moor did the thing,
And signing with love, or something the same,
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The Princess May consented
Ring ring the bells, and bring
All the people to see the thing
Let the gauDt and hungry and ragged poor
Throng around the great Cathedral door,
To wonder what all this hubbub's for,
And sometimes stupidity wonder
At so much sunshine and brightness which
Falls from the church upon the rich,
While the poor get all the thunder.
Ring ring, merry bells, ring
o, fortunate few,
With letters blue
Good for a seat and nearer view
Fortunate few, whom dare not name
Diiettdnte! creme de la creme
We commoners stood by the street facade
And caught glimpse of the cavacade
We saw the bride
In be diamond pride,
With six jeweled maidens to guard her side
Six lustrous maidens in tarltan:
She led the van of the caravan:
Close behind her, her mother,
lDrest in gorgeous moire antique
That told as plainly as words could speak,
She was more antique than the other)
Leaned an the arm of Don Estaban
Santa Cruz de la Muscovado
Senior Grandissmo Oviedo
Happy mortal fortunate man
And Marquis of Eldorado
In they swept, all riches and grace,
Silks and saIins and Honiton lace
ln they swept from the dazzIed sun,
And soon in the church the deed was done.
Three prelates stood on the chance high
A knot, that gold and silver can buy,
Gold and silver may yet unite.
Unless il is tightly fastened
So two Very Reverends graced the scene,
And the tall Archbishop stood between,
By prayer and fasting chastened
The Pope himself would have come from Rome,
But urgent matters kept him at home.
Happy these robed prelates thought
Their words were the power that tied the kn0t;
But another power that love-knot tied,
And saw the chain around the neck of the bride,
n BISIeuluBi pTlCeleSSi uldfVeiOuS cnaln,
COied with diamonds again and again,
As belts diamond wedding
Yet still twas a chan-I thought she knew it
Aud halfway longed for the will to undo it,
by the secret tears she was shedding.
But isn't it odd, to think, whenever
We all go through that terrible River,
Whose sluggish tide alone can sever
The Archbishop says) the Church decree,
By floating one into Eternity
And leaving the other alive as ever
Is each wades through that gastly stream,
he satins that rustic and gems that CLEAN,
70 the noisome Rivers bottom-clay;
hen the costly BRIDE and her maidens six,
Viii shiyer upon the banks of the Styx.
euite as helpless as they we're born
laked souls and very forlorn
Ind the beautiful Empress over yonder,
Whose crinoliHe made the wide world wonder
md even ourselves and our dear little wives,
Who calico wear each morn of their lives
md the sewing girls-and les ehi6oaiers
0 rags and hunger the livelong day
md all the grooms Of the caravan
Aye, even the great Don Estaban
anita Cruz de la Muscovado
enOr Grandissimo Oviedo--
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