The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-08
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OF course the -iirolyy have poetic faculties
OF course the tragedy deepening every hour in
spires item. OF course they are 'gushiug," as
A. Ward has it, in song which will never de-
We have just been reading some Of these scint-
citations of the sos.s use struck off at this
whitehead state of Gings, and perfect
(Eaddle never droped from gov - Bad
esste, bad rhypn, bad graomar, and ''cussin'
~ sweasiac 81 the lussre of almost all these
Brilliant efforts, They come from various Il
of the chivalrousSGap from the staggering
bully with his bowie,knife, to the mincing school.
miss who has not yet lost the ring of ''lullaby
baby on the tree top Here are a few speci-
mems One etfnsion is mysteriously christened
"the three 's"--meaning the Bible, Blanket and
Bowie-knife- oand the poet instructs that these
be furnished Teach man; the knife to stick
,citea the Bible to stick TO, and the blanket to
fstick sas4im. Anoi1n1 a1QaI.e en-.
tirely of .tss sssssse. 1dsl s0A eoTrab ~
Yankees srseoming Enough why they puld
regard that as cheering lset none but them
selves can appreciate. In tho next, a. gay vol
unteer is bidding adieu to the fair Southern
fgrls, and Deed blythe sight OF their tears, ex-
| claims, Tor every tear shed, shall fall ten foe
mems lives" Precious tears these each one
worth ten foemen's lives, horse and saddle to
boot we suppose We have all read Of pea,ly
tears, diamond tears, salt tears, and bloody tears,
but tears worth ten, lives, and why teaa is pro-
duction confined to the Sunny South. Such
drippipgs must be worth preserving, as some
saints tears are said to be- in bottle. A gener-
al invitation addressed to the North, includes
creatures of a sordd clown. The reception is
to consist of a 6io,oins death blast, and dug
graves. parody On "Poor Mary Ann" is ded-
Gated to Maryland. 1t is in the mournfulest tone
of sympathetic sorrow. 1t may be thus fairly
represented:
1t takes the hand of Mary Land
| And calls to her in horror,
Oh, Northern men are on your strand
! We wished your troops to 6o,7er
Their hand is on your temple gate,
! Your stones are fletked with blood,
Your Rough's deserved a better fate
| Neu nelp you Al We eHt
Save us from our friends is not an infrequent
prayer, affectingly appropriate now. One other
illustration and we have done. 1t is from pa
triotic poem, read by patriotic young lady,
before patriotic audience, and might be ex-
pected 10 rise it to the dull level under the cir
cumstances. The passage we quote is fair
sample, and is sHy-gistic form of the biblical
sanction of slavery:
1--WE read it in the Bible,
The holy book of God
That at Christ's arrival
! There were servants and their Lord"
| Eve can nowhere read there
That Christ forbade man
Those servants to inherit,
Or free them in the land"
But all Of us can read there
| That he did this declare,
Your children shall inherit
These servants they shall heir"
Weave the chaplet Put in laurel, parsley,
bay and every other thing that can compare with
this effort of ''hero nation" to breathe its sim
mortal longings and gushings" in living verse;
We vote that the national anthem committee be
take themselves to dignifed repose. There will
be no lack of specimens while the Southern
muse flows as slick Pennsylvania oil wells,
though hardly just as pure.