The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-24
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER "A, 1865.
A FAREWELL TO AGAssIZ.

.. BY o. ". HOLMES. |'I.H
How the mountains talked together,
Looking down upon the weather,
When they heard our friend had planned his
Little trip among the Andes t...,
How they'll bare their snowy scalps
To tho climber Of the Alps, tt't. ..''|
When tho cry goes through their passes, |.I-
"Here comes the great Agassiz = a. ...... ..
Eyes, I'm tall" says Chimborazo.
.'But wait for him to say So t ..-
That's the only thing that lacks-he ..l
Must see me, COtopaM u ......
SAY lay ~ the hre-peak thunders,
"And he must Wow my wonders % '...
I'm but lonely crater, oil cd.
Till have him for spectatorW .r
The mountain hearts are yearning,
The lava-torches burning,
The rivers bend TO meet him, .
The forests bow to greet him, ..
II thrills the spinal column
OF fossil fishes solemn, .t=5t'
And glaciers crawl the faster
To the feet of their old master ..t....
Heaven keep him well and hearty,
Both him and all his partyl s.5sI
From the sun that broils and suites, .....
From the centipede that bites. ...
From the hail-storn and the thunder, b.
From the vampire and the condor, 20.
From the gust upon the river. ..... .....
From the sudden earthquake SILVER,
From the trip of mule or donkey,
From the midnight bowling monkey, .
From the stroke of knife or dagger, 100.
From the puma and the jaguar.
From the horrid boa-comtrietor
That has scared us in the pictur',
From the Indians of the Pampas
Who would dine upon their grampas,
From every beast and verniin
That to think of sets Us squirming,
From every snake that tries on ....
The traveller his bison,
From every pest of NatuI',
Likewise the alligator, - ...I.
And from two things left behind him,
Be sure they'll try to find himt--
The tax bill and assessor
Heaven keep the great Professor
May he find, with his apostles,
That tho land is full of FOSSILS
That the waters swarm with fishes
Shaped according to his wishes, ..|..
That every pool Is fertile
In fancy kinds of turtle, s'u
New birds around him singing, ,
New insects, never singing,
With million novel data
About the artlcnlata,
And facts that strip of ell htsks
From the history of mollusks.
And when, with loud Te Deum,
He returns to his Museum, 4
May he find the monstrdls reptile
That so long the land has kept ill '''.
= by Grant and Sherman throttled,
And by Father Abraham bottled
(AlI specked and streaked and notified
With the scars of murderous battles,
Whtrehe clashed the iron rattles '.."
That gods and men he shook at)
For all the world to look att
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God bless the great Professor!
= And Madame too, God bless heri ..
Bless him and all his band,
On the sea and on the land,
AS they sail, ride, walk and stand
Bless them head and heart and hand,
Till their glorious raid is Ger,
And they touch our ransomed shorei
Then the welcome of n nation,
With its shout of cxultation, 49,
Shall awake the dumb creation,
And the shapes of buried aons fH
Join the living creatures paans,
While the mighty megalosa,irus
Leads the paGozoic chorus
God bless the great Professor,
Aud the land his proud possessor--. .t
Bless them now and evcrmorel