Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-01-18
The Standard.
From the Petersburg Press.

From the Petersburg Press.
Poetry is generally tabooed this page of the Pres
but the following Ode so exceedingly clever that
suspend the rule, for the nonce This poem Is full
equal to Byrons wckedest work in its most nellfuou
Canto and is the best imitation have read not el
ceptng the marvellous photographs Of Horace Smith w
do not suspect its author, do know where
first published for though clip it from the Hhg
yesterday that journal does not claim by the customar
imprint:
Ode to William H Seward,
(oN RRruRS FROM EuRorE-)
Sic tie Diva potens Cypri,
Sic fratr's Helena, lucda siders,
Nentorumque regat pater.
Districts allis, prseter Lapyga,
Navs, que tib creditum
Debes VirgiIlium, fnibus Atticis
Reddas incolimem precor;
Et serves anime dimididum mes.
R0rGtiu1. LBsJ Carmen 8.
Blest be the ship that brought you safe to shore,
Long fated with the winds and waves TO wrestie,
As that of old which Virgil proudly 6o'e; .r
my mottOs not, you must yourself confess, llL)
You never have been so much missed before,
They want you now upon another vessel J.
The ship of State is drifting fast to leward,
And needs your master haId oh matcheSs Seward
cannot tell, indeed but we shall 60
To Dsvy Jones with such a Palinurus,
There's been Of late a dreffie heavy blow
From buStling Au ster and destructive Eurus;
And able seamanship alone. know,
'GainSt every threatening peril can secure us
And sure am we should have soon been unduue,
Had you not happily come back from London.
But ! forget-you CAME direct from France,
You've been guest at Compeigne of the Emperor.
Methinks see you ghtest in the dance
Like youthful innocence, % 81 SIC Sehaper or
Ogling with looks of tenderness askance
The fair Eugenie in the sweetest temper or
Apart with Louis, with q cool etfrontry,
Plotting the speedy downfall Of your country
You've made Pilgrimage another Childe."
To Greece where stood the ancient AthenGum;
And Ioained through "autres vast and deserts Wild
And heard in ministers dim the loud Te Deum;
In galleries stolled where RaphaePS Mary smiled,
Ind seen the ruins Of the Coliseum; =
And now return to an admring nation,
To see the ruins of your reputation.
Enough wanted in this country now
Far since You fingered BY the fame of Isis,
They I've gone and made, o. such precious
IN Congress over the d" Impending Crisis"
By Hinton Helper. not by DIR. Howe,
Of which but fifty cents the present price is
They print il cheap 10 III Ike it more accessible,
The text book of your Conflict lrrepressiblc.
They've hung John Brown, the martyr and the saint,
To whom New England sings Extravaganza
The Devil himself would Wendell Phillips paint
Sky blue. and Lowell write him tuneful Stanzas
But spite of Black Republican complaint,
You'll hear more, I think. of bleeding Kansas
Virginia stopped that terrible phleboomy,
Last month, you know in hanging Ossawatome.
40 bloodieSt picture in the book of Time"
Perhaps You, il say. Twas stern sentence, very;
But old Browns rife slew Tconfound the Rhyme)
Some worthy citizens Harper's Ferrv;
Think OF tie tool and victim of your crime
And DER his righteous fate at home make merry
Or quickly seek North E:bs where they've laid him,
And there confess how Wiley you betrayed him.
We've heard about your knowledge of his scheme
And how you said they never should have told YOU,
But kept the guilty secret did Won deem
The Black Republicans had only sold Sou?
Oh no. YOU know twas not hideous dream
No doubts, no consciencewinges eer controlled you;
For thus and other true and pleasing stories,
Ide the brilliant speech Of Mr. voorhees,.
"Swcet Auburn! ovelies village of the plain"
We'll may thy sons in happy grnups assemble
T" welcome to his long lost home again
The man whose voice makes listening Senates trembe
As fashionable people thrill with pain
At Lady Macbeth, read BY Fanny Kem5le-
And who atones at once for all his knavery,
By eloquenty pitching into Slavery.
There is prison in that pleasant town,
That should have offered yuu its hnSpitalties
On landscapes peaceful It's grim walls look down.
Quite near the Central Railway and Canal it is
Thepe yOn might write the life of Captain Brown
The IuieteSt of undisturbed localities
And there trust that you NAV be resident,
Until the "colered gem men make you President.
OUELQU'UN.