The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-04-20
ChO-Che-Bang and Chi-Chil-BIoo.
By AdoLphus LonqfszLosg Naaqi,ss.
AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE


ince of K0-Whang,
Who had an only daughter, and her name
was Cho-Che-Bang
The maiden was a jewel, Celestial beauty
rare,
With narrow slanting eyebrows, and carrot
c0lored hair;
One foot was scarce three inches long, the
other knew no bounds;
She numbered fourteen summers-and she
weighed three hundred pounds
CAETo II.
On the drearY shores of Lapland mid their
never ending SHOWS,
Where the Roly- Boly, Alicet in her rudy
beauty gIows,
Lived a little dwarfsh tinker, who in height
stood three feet two,
And from his endless shivering they called
him Chi-Chi-BlooI
This crooked little tinker, as he dragged his
weary way
From hut TO hut to ply his craft, scarce
seemed of human clay;
His eyes were like two marbles, set in little
seas of glue,
His cheeks a sickly yellow, and his nose a
dirty blue.
CANTo III.
Now, Chi-ChilBloo, though born in snow
and reared upon its breast
Loved not the bleak, chill land where dwelt
the spirit of unrest;
He bid adieu unto the scenes of never end
ing storm,
And travelled forth to find some land where
he could keep him warm.
He trudged two years his weary way, far
from the land Of snow
Inside the walls of China, whittier strangers
seldom 60
When, wearied with his pilgrimage, he halt
ed at Ko-Whang,
of Che-Bang.
The old man heard his wOndrous tale of
sights that he had seen,
Where nature wore a winding sheet, and
shrouded all things green.
And pOndering Ger, within his mind, If
wonders such could be,
At last engaged poor Cbi-Chil-BlOO to cult
yate his tea
CANTO ~
1t had always been the custom of the fairy
like Che-Bang,
Ere evenings shadows fell upon the valley
of Ko-Whang,
To wander mid the tea groves, like an Ori-
entail queen,
On the shoulder of her servants in fancy
palanquin.
As she merged from out the shadow Of
She espied the little tinder stripping down
the fragrant tea;
She gazed upon his wOndrOus form, his eyes,
his nose of blue
A moment gazed then deeply fell In love
with Chi -ChilBloo.
She stepped from out the palanquin, and
there dismissed her train,
With instructions that an hour past, they
might return again;
She then appraised her fimsY vail that hid
her charms from sight,
And poor Chi Chill Bloc beheld a face to him
surprising bright.
CANTo v
He gazed transfxed with wonder; to him
surprising fair
Were her rounded up proportions and sal
mon colored hair.
He fingered in Il dreamy trance, nor woke
he from his bliss,
Till her loving arms entwine him and her
lips imprint a kiss
She led him to a bower, and beside the dwarf
she kneeled,
And sighed, like Desdemona at his 'scapes
by food and feld;"
He told of seals and reindeer, and bears that
live at sea;
He told her tales of icicles, and she told
tales Of tea.
CANTO ".
Long, long they fondly fingered thus-locked
in each others arms
She saw in him, and he In her, a thousand
glowing charms
When looking down the distant vale the
suns fast fading sheen
Fell family on the gold of her returning
palanquin.
"Yonder come my slaves" she cries, and
now, Chil-Bloo, we part;
My father-oh, my father has a cruel, finty
heart
He has promised me to Chow-Chow, the
Croesus of Ko-Whang,
But Chow-Chow's old and gouty, and he
won't suit Che-Bang."
CANTO VII.
" Oh, come beneath my window at a quarter
after three,
! When the moon hath gone bathing at hel
bathroom in the sea.
And we will fly to other lands across tht
ocean blue;
But hush here comes the palanquin, anC
now, sweet love, adieu r.
They placed her In her palauquin, her boeou
throbbing free,
While Chi-Chil Bloc seemed busy picking vi
his gathered tea;
As rested from his weary rounds the dyin
god Of day,
They raised her on their shoulders and the
trotted her away.
CANTO yIII.
AZ the time and place appointed, meath he
lattice stood the dwarf
lie whistled to his lady, and she answere
with a cough
, She threw a silken ladder from her windo'
down the wall,
And he, brave knight, stood fixed beneath {
catch her, should she fall
She reached the ground III safety-one kis
one chaste embrace,
Then she waddled and he trotted of IN S
Ience from the place.
CANTo TX.
Swift, swift they held their journey lo7
! had made her footsteps light;
They hid themselves at morning dawn, an
fed again at night,
/ The second Night had buried Day, and IoIde
: up her pail,
z When they reached the Gentry. station II
F.; derneath the mighty wall
( Che-Bang told well her tale OF love- Chl
f Bloc told hi5-alas
e The sentry had no sentiment, and Wonidn
f let him pass;
e But he called a file Of soldiers, and too