Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-01-01
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should you ask me whence these stories,
Whence these legends and traditions,
With their frequent Tepetltions,
And their Wild dTeverberAtlons,
As of thundsr In the mountAins,
Telling of a swinging Nonareh,
Though an humbls individual,
All composed Of little prOnounsi
swinging, swinging round the circle,
should answer, l should toll you,
In the pocket of one Moses,
Low down in his breeehes pocket.
All this knowledge II was found there,
And one wllliam Seward also;
He was there to guard these legends,
way low down in Moses pocket;
There to. watch this mighty trea sure,
Ali his soul and all his siHIard,
RsTeled far down in this abyss;
There arranging these traditions.
Sixty days 1t occupied h'm
And his glasard h OF within him,
Like a living coal his giEEsrd.
Now upon a summer evening
This same humble individual
This same Moses Of the darkis,
Took some stars IRON He'll aud Heaven,
Thirty-six he look in number
Good and bad, and all together
And upon a fAg he placed thami
The Heaven. born he placed At the bstie's,
And placed above the hall bsgo'iN
Low Down now into his pocket,
Moses thrust his great prOboSsls
And In tones Of thunder beloved,
"Yilliam Seward, William ssWArdi
Have you there Constitution,
Good old fashioned Consultation,
Kind they have in South Carolina,
That will let us 6oE Niger,
Rass oar giEEArd nOgglns Dinahs
II you have, wsll taks journey
To the doorway Of the West Wind.
To the portals Of the sunaet,
To the grave Of the great Douglas"
Moses wspt as thus he snd,d,
Thus he ended in blubber.
Seward answered thus his masisFs
"All you Rak, o gr,st Dictator,
IL already at your service.
Great Moses, force out with US
Names to draw q crowd around uti
Let US have the Great Ulysses.
Hero Of the Northern people.
Force him togo out Tong with u.s.
Fores some othsfs S'ao With him,
60 we'll get a crowd to see.us.
Wrap this Gag around your middla,
At ene corner wrap It roLnd youi
Tie the ether round my ankle,
Closs around my ankle blnu III
Thus suspend me In your pocket.
Your capaslous breeehsH pocket,
Head end downward to the bottom
'Mong the treasures Of Great Mosss,
snnfan after bread and buttar.
Thus wen swing around tho circle,
Plinging Stars and Constitutions,
Thirty-Aix at every. hlngAg,
At he stubborn common people,
At the laboling nA,s.s Westward.
Thus wsn tsrrlfy and eve them.
Until none Shsll vots for Schuyler.
None shall dare hurrAh for Butler.
Logon too shall bs defeatsds
Hook Andlins they thAll be routsdi
copferJohnton stock shall nourtahi
TrAitors too al all be rewarded"
Thus hs sndsd much exhausted.
Crying fsiAtly as he ended,
BREAD and bnttsr, holy Moses"
All wss ready nov lor travel.
OF they darted like the morning
1ulid seemed the sky above them,
Lurid seemed the ssrth beneath Their
Soon they came to.mighty Cleveland,
Place all cursed with schools and eh urehes,
People not Appreeiatise,
Tool. them for a. drove OF Asset,
IAN except the great Ulysses,
And the otheis forced out with him.
Here thu. wrath Of Moses Hoored him,
FiuAg him back upon his bRuuehes.
As he fell he caught bensAth him,
Caught the hssd Of Billy Seward. a.
Right between the end he sits on 81.
And the mud beneath tbs platform,
Caught and smashed his future grsatasis
Into forty million frigmsnts,
As his pAt3 was downward pendent,
Way low down in Moses pocket,
his cApAelous brteehes poeke'
All the other deeds OF valoF,
And the maty acts Of greatness,
Of the wonderful Dictator,
Ashe swung around the circle,
They're forbidden, they're forbidden.
E'er to be snunelalsd
only this shall ser be mentioned,
Mentioned to the shame Of Hoonlert.
rlf How ths stupid Hoosisra used him
Made him shut his spacious blow-plpsi
TiilSd his holy eyes with water,
prlny tears OF deepest anguish
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