Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-02
The Poet Husband.

The Poet Husband.
Mr.. Hugh O'Halloran, native Of the
Emerald Isle, and Of respectable exterior,
was charged with assaulting and ill-.reat-
ing his wife. Mrs. O'Halloran was q
splendid specimen of womanhood. She
was tastefully and elegantly attired.
The complainant, having been sworn and
examined, deposed TO the assault. She
was heart-broken by the treatment she had
received at the hands of her unkind hus-
band. He not only squandered her mon-
ey, but deserted her altogether.
.k,dge-@ Well, Mr.. O'Halloran, what
have you TO say TO the grave charges pre-
ferred against you by your conjugal part
ners"
Mr.. OHaiseraa-" Most potent Sirs,
with heavy sighs and tears, mus! confess
that in my younger years. a woman's smile
was sure to draw me TO her, magnet-
like !; then fog while I'd WOO her, and
constant be till some more sunny face
would lead me off again in Cupid's chase.
Sweet was the life led wanton bee;
every fair flower had honeyed stores for
| me. Thus did live in loves bright bow
err, enjoying LIES rarest gifts that seemed
to know no cloying. Thus still I'd live !;
but in . luckless hour, met with one
4 L. hr1 in,
twining in loves bonds my truant heart !;
so that from her thought I'd never part
Besides, in widows weeds my charmer
drest (for her first spouse was gone,
hope, to restl when became her deeply
smitien g,sest. ! looked upon her pale,
lofty brow and thought, sthis IS the god
dessr which through life I've sought
Strange fancies then did to my mind oc-
cur. which were, as more or less they
seemed like ber, tha. felt love for others
of her sex, or faithful was. These ideas
would perplex greater mind than mine !;
l believed that we were pre-ordained TO
wed by destiny, long ere this rolling world
began to be. But hang these strange
ideas, they're nought but nonsense; such
sentimental fudge laughed at long since.
But, as said, or meant to say, her face,
decked with widows caps, possessed such
grace, such rnodessy, occurrences, and what
not, that my poor wandering heart at
length was caught. sighed and sang,
wrote sonness half a dozen, and popped the
question. Suddenly Unfrozen her heart
became, like to some frost-bound brook,
dissolvine meath the sIay-god's ardent look,
The matrimonial ordeal soon was passed.
the honeymoon scarcely month did last !;
my wife was not the goddess that thought
her, she Kept me always esdying in hot
water. IF dare look at Jane or IauTa's
eyes, or answer Emma's glance with
smothered sighs, full in my face would the
! hall-door be slammed. II / were dead
: could not be more damneal My tyrant
triumphed in thoughtless hour DER all
my worldly wealth gave her power
Then, then, indeed, was her veriest
slave. ] fed for freedom, but unto my
grave she says she'll haunt me; would 1
knew . cell or lonely cave where till
death could dwell All me! fear that
even after life I'd still be plagued and pes
tered by my wife,"
.h.dge-" You had right TO stay with
, your wife,"
Hss1aad-" Sooner I'd be exiled to
some bleak shore, the hirsute inmate Of
some cavern boar, gazing the watery waste
! Of ocean DER, stunned by the thunders Of
t the tempest's roar. There I'd exc out the
remnant Of my life, in striving to forget ]
8 ever had a wife,"
I Jndge-a Mrs. O'Halloran appears the
!. very reverse Of what you seek to repre-.
y sat her. Her demeanor is calm and dig
$ nifed. Poet, though you be, you ough
J, to be proud Of such charming compan
: ion."
n Husba,sd-"s If to her lot some femal,
n errors fall, look in her face and you'll for
e get them ALL So sung Dan Pope som,
: hundred years ago; had he been wed, hi
n rhymes would different flow had he bu
IS sung in matrimonial chains, he'd sing as
e have sung, far other strains. If in hel
; face unclouded calm appears, if her eye
y sparkle like resplendent spheres, and j
r her voice 10 musically low, soft as thu
'e tones from angel harps that flow, still doub
10 your senses, and believe that brow's of
s. tempest clad, and that those bright eyes of
Ie glow with fires Internal, like the furies thai
N are sent on earth to seourge oppressive
IS men believe that voice whose sweetness
le won such praises, can hoarsely scream
m Confound you, go to blazes.' You'll find