New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-14

lie has flehed and rugged snake-lke Bark
He has armed ii with stolen guns.
or,h from tie bay it swn.s like shark,
Wrapped in the sroudS Of It's kindred DARK
An thin, g god ana siroug it shuns.
Cow sliIy IL steers! How ,cwiy il steals! HaIk!
What whisper they ia t cir dreary tarkf
osayl Are we rirlti Aye! Our letters of narque
Are siQne.l aud sealed. Ais rightly done,
They aie signed by jefferson Number oDei
They arc numbered Number oneF'
Ho. Hol Cfeeri'y Hol
No longer 81, No longer Glow,
Tire snaky bark tukts wing.
No Longer IL err cps like slimy rat,
But it flies ike lolt.some. hckerish bat,
flee ike q hideous varnpIe, that
Sets bis teeth and shsrPens his sting,
Ere he plunge biz beak IL the ife-bloods spring.
"uo! Iiol Cheerily Ho!"
ne Pirefes cry "Mrnily, 80
To ur wc'terirg feast Of blood we 60.
How we long tor it's gurgliDg flow
What we dare tLat shall lie done,
Hurrah for tie victim Number One'
Hurrsb for Number One|
"Wbat boz What no A sail on the leel
Mind you your be m, my belmsman stout,
About with the slip. sail her fast and free.
About with tie ship! About! about
10 to the mailtop, you lubberly lout;
Don't step as though YOU were crampea with gort,
Nor handle the Iol so dainty ard sott,
Set every stitch allow and slo
Nearer now nea er. the chase appears,
Bloody boys ready the runaway Dearsl
SIC her Is ele plain on the arboard bow,
Sharp must she be TO weather US now.
f>ook 10 your cutlasstsl Charge the great gun.
well give her a taste OF Nunoer One,
Well give Der Num5er One!
"sdip shoyl Ship aboy! Wen have her this tack;
She'll save lingering chase
2Lip ahoy! Yank. Doge! BE tritie less slack,
Down your u ack.a-lnoor Stripes and Stars !
Wen up instead the Conf deratc Bsrsl
Down, down with the rag !-Ila what Is that cnek1
What ueaneih the Lubberl He ausW eIeth back
We've a fght in ted If q racel
Curse the impudent Yakees! For quarter and grace
rbey may sue aud be damned. They ehall have none
Shor. be their shrit from Number One,
Short shrift fiom Number One"
tLi Sooth said the Pirae The answer csme
From the big like an outburst Of He'll
Il came in sheet Of glaueing fame!
In M iron sleet Of deadly ami
And with sheet aud slee', SHOT the burning shame
TO his craven breast, 10 learn too late
From the Yankees arm, and tie vol 9 of Fate
The truth which now he learns too well.
ut plot il long, and work in the dark,
Gpd cover il over with ietters Of marqre,
Murder il still a DANGEROUS game!
Begin it. and two csn play at the came.
At shis DARK game, the Royers luck
Was little TO score, end less their pluck.
FOR the folon bloU 10 strike they meant
When on their errald Of greed they went.
The Bucc4peer flag instead they struck
Those dogs of the Perry who would not run
Haye spoiled the Pirates Strengthening fun;
The tale of their prizes they have feaiy begun.
& heads to-day with Number One.
1t heads with Number One
60 the North there frowns Garksome pile
SO daTks0me. call it the Tombs.
Who arc guarded there ? Ali seldom they smile
But spectred thoughts Of fruitless vile
And ghosts CT plots of deadly guile
Arc their comrades drear in those doIefu rooms,
Where Darkness and Sin spread kindred giooms.
There water inst ad OF wine TO drink
And chains instead Of canakns clink
And there, with those courades dresr, they think
OF "a past thar stars and fate that dOoosl
IN itiul sleep they fam would bide
SEom the phantoms that FIJI the world outside.
Bot again that answering cannon boomsi
Again their 8 ,uls are fevered with fear
BY victim vanquisbed again, they hear
6s dread summons sound in their throbbng ear.
They start in their dream as called By Faiei
They start and shrink! They hear the gate
of'be cell On It's rusty hinges CRATE
Ihrougo the IOrtal whispers the voice they bate.
is tie voice Of The hesdsman; he calls, " / wait
for the frst Of the pirates The gisbetis done.
Come iorth to your reckoning, Number One I
Come forth. doomed Number onei"