Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-10-05
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From Vanity Fair, Aug. IL,
THE SONG OF THE RATS.

From Vanity Fair, Aug II.
THE SONG OF THE RATS.
BY ouArLrs T. ooNoDoS.
Rats rats rats
In a White Old House is gray old rat,
Fidgetng ever and blind as a bat
Growing and grumbling over his cheese,
Easy 70 huff and hard 10 please
Managing, manage, day and night.
Everything wrong and nothing right
Fussy, fretty foolish and fat
Know ye the name Of the Gray Old Rat
II.
Rats rats rats
In a certain House is an eloquent rat
Grea, in his voice, and his sense is not that
Long in his speech, and he hasa way
As II he had something to say
words ia plenty come gushing out,
As rainwntcr runs from LOFTY spout
Stars and eagles and stripes and all that
Know ye the name Of the Eloquent Rat
Ill.
Rats rats rats
Over the land the candidate rats
In motley coats and without any hats,
Are 6ooing and marching and marching aud oooinR'
Talking. delighted Of wreck and Of run.
Oh, there ever such a mcandot
Cuaxos and curses. shaver audslender
Zach Of them to bell the cats
Know ye tho names Of the Candidate Rats
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Rats rats rats
In civil store houses the hungry rats,
All Of them patriots and most Of them rats,
Few, alas TO the manor born
Nibbe away at the peoples corn,
In swearing and stufting 10 barking and biting
In ravishing. smoking and drinking, delighting
The Rats OF the Peope--the dear Democrats
Know yc the names Of the Civic Rats
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Rats rats rats
Pen-and inkrats in their holes on high,
Whiting libos for fools 20 buy
scribbng ever-thc same old tune,
The limited lie OF the broad lampoon
Rats whose virtue can never fail,
Though each one carries his price on his tail
Some bite like scorpiOns-sonc like guats
Know ye the names Of Editor Rats
VI
Rats rats rats
Rats that the bclfried churches nurse,
Drcarily drawing chapter and verse;
Offering ever for human ills
Only the barren letter that Mills
Growing the Ark Of the Covenant through,
From velvet cushion 10 paddcd-pew,
Beating the dust 10 blind the fats
Know ye the names Of the Reverend rats
VII
Rats rats rats
Rats In erminc boiling moot,
With law ia parcels At pficcs to suit
Shaping, inventing to cover the case,
Precedent musty or dictuin base,
Cad how they gibber to suitors below
"If so be it thus, why then thus be it 30 70
Lcges nan cHrydHf-rerbtnt sat
Know yc the name OF the Legal liati
VII
Rats rats rats
Rats in the ancient Temple OF mind
Mumhlug mngguts and muuchiug rind
Scrubbing and patching splicing and juntiug
With particles Greek and Hebrew pointing,
Proving virtue sin,
BY catnma let out a colon lef in
OF plcsses and glosscs the antocrats
Know yc the names Of the Learned Rats
TX.
Rats rats ratsl
By beds where the dying pant for life,
How snug they stand with lance aud knife
While the vampire tugs At the huttering heart,
How they ilbbcr Iargon OF the middle-age art
soothing pain when Ills savage and strong
BY naming h something Latin and long
a grain Of this and scrupc Of that -
hHow ye the name Of the Medical Rat
X
Rats rats rats
Rats that run IN the month uf May,
Rats 81 ref rm and right they;
Rats who believe the hottest Of speeches
Soonest the shame and sorrow reaches
Generous rats whose chlcfcst delight
Is 70 set the order Of Providence right
Lean or hairy, or greasy, or fat,
Know ye the name " the Platform Rat
XII
Rats rats rats
o Truth and Justice, aud common Sense
when will YOU drive this rat-tribc hence
Bait en- and beat en- hurry en- skuIry en-
When satire and scorn and laughter furry EN-
In hole and corner and Granny To hide,
The hunky Rat and the Rat Of Pride,
Seldshness, Pcdantry, Cant and all that,
TIL nobody hears Of a single Rat