East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-07-27
Selected Poetry.
(From the Boston Courier
ABRAAM AND COLUMBIA.

Lank Abraam loled in his library chair,
Consulting "Joe Miller and VANITY Fair"
When In swept Columbia, careworn and pale,
But dauntless and naughty mid Fortuntes asssil
Come, steward" she said "now explain If yo'
Why shan't discharge you and try new man
Then Abraam the willy replied with q grin,
"A Dutchman once said in the county Of Quinn
(The story is old, but in point as desm,)
'Taint safe to swap horses when crossing stream
Cease, sirrah your jesting remember /" she sale
"My fields with the blood Of my yeomanry red
The wall Of the widow, the orphans sad eye,
Rebuke the rude triling Of lowly or high.
My children are warning along my green slopes
l come for your counsels, your plans and youi
hopes"
Quoth Abraam. don't swap, for as sure IS gun
This thing, IL Is certain, must never be done.
Your biler will bust If you bother the steam
faint safe to swap horses when crossing stream
"Dut steward" she answered, "my debts are un.
told;"
Account for my treasure of silver and gold!
Hard taxes are wrested from labor's brown hand
Yet pledged is my income, and mortgaged my
land;
Your squandcrings waste what the plunderer,
miss;
Thre. years of your follies have brought me to
thisv %
And Abraam replied, as he straddled his chair
"You know. my dear madam, I'm honest and
square;
To shelve a tried President, don't ever dream
'Taint safe to swap horses whom crossing stream
"You crouch to John Bull, for French despots
hurrah,
You cringe to the spaniard, and toady the Gar
My shield cannot shelter poor refugees;
My commerce IL hunted all over the sea,
How fallen am 1.-The young Queen of the West.
Who walked among Nations, moro proud than
the best"
"'Ts true, said the steward, ~ notice your fix
But let the pot boil, and jest tote up the sticks
Don't muddlo the milk if you want TO get cream /;
'Taint safe to swap horses when crossing stream.
"sir, since You persist in your quips and your
cranks,
Where is Roscccrans, Cameron, Scott and Nat
Banks
Pray, why do You swap, If removal won't cure, !.
When Fremont was fast and Mcclellan was sureP
And quelling her tears she demanded reply,
With clouds on her brow and fame in her eye.
"That minds me said Abraham of old Deacon
Bruce
What's sass for the gander aint sass for the goose
Things aint at all times ser he quite what they
seem.
'Taint safe to swap horses when crossing stream
"Enoughw cried Columbia, "my future SEQ
Ruin havoc and death in the homes of the free
Fair Liberty stabbed by the lords of misruc,
While thoughtless she laughs ut the freaks Of
their fool;
Thieves, clowns and and usurpers in council pre-
side,
And fraud, force and folly my destinies guide"
"l have it quoth Abraam 'as slick us mice
Squash Hamlin and Governments rid of its VICE:
But don't turn tail at Copperhead scream.
'Taint safe 10 swap horses when crossing Il stream
Columbia, dlsgusted would listen no more,
But cried in rage as she stormed through the
door,
az have kept an old donkey for nearly four years
Who brings me but scon, and disasters and
tears!
vow 1 will drive n respectable team,
Though forced to swap horses when crossing a
stream" CORDUROY.