The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-01-03
Carrier Boys Address
TO THE PATRONS OF THE
HIGHLAND WEEKLY NEWS.
NEW YEAR,s NLORNING. 1s0z.

"Swinging around the circle"
Was Earth's majestic role, sustained for
ages
On tireless feet, Ger her airy beat,
Through trackless space, stil pressing the
race,
The ''homo-strotch" now, each nerve en-
cages,
White frost and sloet, meath her pattering
feet,
Do simmer and glance, like polished
lance,
With swift and imminent daily stuges,
Rushing on to the "soore" time (same as
before,)
Is three sixty-five, and quarter.
But Earth has rival Of late which out
ran il,
"NIy Rolicy" being ahead Of our pLan-n,
A neck at least, and nothing shorter!
The contrast i'm size, need cause no surprise,
Since Earth has more bottom, but Andy
more IIIFS,
Then cock Democratic why don't YOU
crow?
You used not to celebrate victory so,
Amazing shame! that with feathers furled,
Ye cacRle as hens, after beating the World,
"Swinging around the circle"
As we "swung around the circle"
The sorrowful knell of the tolling bell,
In mOurnful cadence frequently fell
On the startled ear with a dismal swell;
In the midst ofa jest, brilliant Corwin was
Gumbj
With eloquent speech, see Van Buren, sue
And the cOnquering hero, though lingering
late,
Great Scott must submit to the general fate,
While Pierpont, the patriot, poet priest,
And Count Gurowski, the Polish beast,
With many name of lesser fame,
(Of "Seventy-six" one hero alone
Survives at last-his comrades all goae1
MOng nameless shades, now sleep the
same,
Whose voices no more from the echoless
shore
Shall swell on Times tumultuous roar,
As we "swing around the circle"
The Cable was placed in the depths of
the sea,
From the land of the Lords to the land of
the free,
And the old world was linked and bound
to the new,
But neither believed their dreams had
come true,
Now doubling their eyes, then doubling
their ears,
Till the magical messenger banished their
fears,
As it silently bore from shore to shore
ETHEREAL bulletins-thoughts and wishes,
Secure from sea-nymphs, sprites and fishes,
As never dispatches were borne before.
The ghosts of desire fit over the wire,
Pursued by a spark of Promethean fire,
And the nervous throbs Of the Nations
heart,
Leap like lightning from mart to mart,
While the varying pulse Ofthe Peoples will
From earth's remotest borders thrill
And the planets on high look with envious
AS we "swing around the circle"
The Feninn scare-crow, with howls
and boots,
Nigh frightened poor Canada out Of her
boots,
Nor still content, it seems it will dare
To beard the bristling Lions lair!
OF all the wars melted by Mars,
Since Noah's ark foated above the flood,
This "innegan" fight for the Irish right,
Has the very most fuss, and the very least
blood
Green Erin; thy wrongs I deeply deplore,
And trust the "shillelah" as in days of
yore,
Will "swing around the circle"
There was war in Europe-a bloody
war,
Quick, sharp, decisive-but better far,
Than feeble, chronic, spasmodc strife,
That ebbs and flows and lasts for life,
Not so was the work of the bold Bismarck,
Who peeled the Austrian, squelched the
Frenchman's bark,
And knocked the little Kingdoms stiff and
stark
See Benedck, by Prussians put to rout,
Who fight with needle-guns and feust on
sour krout,
Securing at one blow Germanic unity,
While gaining Venice too for Italy,
OF whom FIVE circles back l sung in hope,
"Now Naples-Venice next and then the
Pope -
"sadowa' forced proud Austria to the
wall;
Twill not prove her end, while there's
money to lend,
When Mars is her foe, she makes Venus
her friend,
And her enemies fall, as she marries them
all,
While we "swing around the circle"
By the billing and cooling twixt the Eagle
end Bear,
There's mischief brewing, the British de-
clare,
With their Fenian fright and troublesome
bIlBntl
Alabama claims and Indian famine,
Confederate investments-and "Rinder-
pest"
Perhaps they'll conclude 1t is not best
At present TO give us ga lammin,"
AS we "swing around the circle"
The Frechman's schemes, on this side
and that,
Have come to grief and have fallen flat,
Twas hard to see his mark blurred by Bis
marck,
At first he was pouty, then growing gouty,
He finally swOrc he would make a big
Fair,
And kick the id Dutchman if he came
therei
He sent MaX-i-millian TO Mexico
He'd now give million if 'twere not so,
Hither his troops were transported with
power,
Thither, crestfallen, returning they now
are,
And Campbell and Sherman have gone on
TO say
This speech at the close of the grand scenic
play:
"Mr. Max may TO Miramar move array :"
Alas and indeed he had better give heed,
And to Queen CarlOtta hasten with speed,
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