The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-12-15


Ban fear arm wandering, so prilhee 60 back
To whore turned from the beaten track.
My cows were TO show that the strongest are meek,
And bfavsdo and blusier the signs of The weak.
For II you should chance on the pond in your path,
When the sander is just going down 10 a bath,
With part Of geese and their goslings behind
Whose whole strength, united, would not mind
Ten 10 one bur he makes blind rush, hit mis- $,
Pouring out his small fury in prolonged hiss;
Stretches up his long neck, fuuers fo.th his bread
wings,
And threatens 10 perpetrate terrible things;
1ill you grasp the long neck with It's writings and
rollings,
And take him to walk by your side, no!ens voens,
Which very soon quenches the flames Cfhs ire
And makes him exceedingly long TO retire.
The moral of ihis, in YOUR memory you keep,
Wrapped up in such phrase " still iun deep p
Or, less elegant, ye Of usage far wider,
TO be csrefdily stunned ihough) all talk ard no
cder.7
Bat, unlike the great number of fables you see
The fable IS yours but the moral for me;
For The Flushing up of my story, dear friend
fear has no crit but his-'ns the end
And therefore, 10 make il more worthy Your time
] axe the Precauon 10 dsess il in rhy M.
Or, plainly, 10 speak without any preience
10 make up IN sound what Is lacking in sense
Now, dom; be malicious, and say, that score,
sh,hid have been rhyming Icing Zine before
And moreover think 10 keep up the illusion,
AID my soul-sIirrine incidents free from confusion
Or premature liiiig OF trunks and porImanieau.,
Fwoud br "A goot plan divide INFO canIos
And since want all things fat il you please
will not fall prematurely ia Disdias res
Bar imbibs wine by gentle suction,
And devote one canto 10 introcuction.
CAYTo I.-IntrOduction
&c Arma viruinque ca no!
Such songs / Will sing, / irow
No murderou-, blood se~ priHkied lore
OF naIions-once bat he vermore-
Ofshadowy weed and fearful rite
cIryudrd in everlasting night
ing MT OF England fame
Her ancient blood her honored name
Nor STOP 70 with old roIuonct
The vine-c!at hills of sGnny France.
! turn not now my wisiful eyes
- shsTc N. Alpine SUBMITS rise
follow nol Tie mournlGl track
WheSe Thousands wen, but came not bacl
Nor gaze along Italian plans
Which maEy hero's il e-blsod slams
Nor macly seek 10 bring TO light
fhe horrors of hat fearful night
When old Virginia veiled her face
aud ccasing To take heart of grace
lr0m home and hesrih fled ont in 1ocks
And dwell like comics in the rocks
. led lac the startled hosts of INDIAN
Before the raIIing lamps Gideon.
tHor strang' ly, was there any lack
OF pisohsrS IA the rout;
For while John Brown ''pitching ms
The ch.va ~ pitched QUIZ
Oh mud-si..s OF the grovelling North,
Pour all your ramp mt raiIlery forth
Scorn every deed of valor done
Upon The captured Twenty. One.
Mock If you will the laird lieht
many n hl.zuc bri.rbt
Laugh when in every Southern home
The chronic "cry is. still they come -
Yet fiom The rough old farmer learn
truth you, bind, 90 not cscern;
And let such knowledge stay your scoding
50 iis dreadful hard TO kick gin nothing
Not such, o friend, shall be my lay;
No superslilions irenzied sway,
No battles maddeniag ARRAY
But meek adventures. guiet pleasures,
Soft griefs, and mil .y vigorous measures
Snaiches oil homely, rurIl life,
Removed from care, vexaiion, strife,
The 'trans lent sorrows. simple WILLIS
Praise, blame, Sc tears and smiles"
CANTo II.-AqUatic and Geological.
For instance, i'll walking one fne summer day,
We found a broad river impeding our way.
The torrent was rapid, and frantic, and deep;
bat the rocks OH its bosom invited a leap.
lfyou stood out of sight a wild sireamet's brink,
That rushing and rantiug and raging and ring
With a crIggy, Old, slippery, camel black flooring
Coming up every two three feet into view,
And looking as il ii would like 10 floor you
do You IA NIX you are 30 equiposed you could ever
Help having tussle with that sort OF river!
Doni Try. Ills The chsrmngs ST thirg in tie world
To lmg of the Irammeis of civilization
Angce that stockings and shoes should be hurried
~oIt OF ssh', ont mind" lest they aid gravi,aton
I'M Arid that ought TO beg pardon, my dear,
For emp loying word III Il may CRATE OH your ear;
Since lind that whenever housekeeper goes
To shop, it is always for nothing bat hose
Though strange mi shi unto Proieus compare EN-
Ia turn iuio Stockings The minute you wear emil
And feel the ; fl wafer curl lovingly round,
And guess lis too shallow 10 Jet you be drowned;
Or bury your feet la the mud and the moss;
Or ind where the ford is by trying 10 cross;
Ami splash ia, and dash in-dont fail in-a fright
Il the bibles should the " lood smokers bite
hsnt ike brain fever, The worst that is DONE
For the cutting and biting re only in fun
And II you should happen to make small slip,
Keep, Ia Micawb-r, "a stiff upper lip;"
And by way of revenge on all sraceess scofers,
Pitch somebody else in, the first chance that offers
lou may laugh, You may frown, you may scorn it, and
GouI IL,
Bat my dear have been there and know all about it,
And many the brook have traced TO its source
don't know, though. exac.ly; fancy mo II brooks
Lac what Solomon said of the making OF books;
And after you've followed them mile upon mile,
loubegiH TO soIiloquize, :" as il worth whiie?n
And, hhally, ceasing It's turnings to trace
Begin II yourself, and turn right about faces
Well onee on a ;ime thus see king the fountain
Oi river that came tumbling down from mountain,
We, leaplag a Id splashing, now in and now out
And paiing the fishes aud such things 10 rout
Game at length TO overgrown rockwell, as large
As that famous. much boosted, Cyclopean barge
feiepi the Great Eastern, sea sub soil plough,
cite that as The largest thing going just now.
tN5t going, perhaps twould be better TO say,
For being once "pui' il looks likely 10 stay.
vi al names they have certainly cho e the best,
For Il seems not al all TO incline 10 the west
ms rock IN past ages hsd split clean in two,
ana The river, not knowing what better TO do,
ASH couldn't go round deemed il best TO go through.
suppose, when il split, each fragme jerked back,
ana 80 made for the stream a respectable track;
nan way up the side of this horrible crack
tue mouth of q vaynsd asmal and black: