Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-11-08
From The Land We Love-"
THE DEVILS DELIGHT.

To breakfast morning the Devil came down,
by demons and vassals attended;
headache had darkened his brow with frown,
From his orgy last night, or the weight Of his
crown,
But his presence internal vaB splen i'd
IN a robe of red flame was Diayolo drest,
ithout smutch OF cindcr to soil it !;
Blue blaZes envelOped his throat and his chest,
While the tail tied with ribbons as blue as the vest
Completed his Majesty's toilet
No masquerade devil Of earth could begin.
With his cOunterteiI horns and his mock tail,
To look Ike his model Original Sin,
AS Of lava and lightning and bitters and gin
He sat and compounded cocktail.
But to give in all conscience, the Devil his due,
He seemed sorrowful rather than irate
And his Majesty moped all the dejetner through
With twitch, now and then, OF the ribbons blue,
And the look OF pentent pirate
Then smile, such follows some capital joke
OF Dickens, hood or a Jerrold,
Sweet, playful and tender, all suddenly broke
Ger the face of Sathanas, turning he spoke,
Go imp! bring the file of the Herald ~
The paper was brought, and Old Nick ran his eve
(In default of debates in the Senate)
Over crimes, there were plenty, of terrible dye
Over letter and telegram, slander and lie
And the blatherskite leaders Of Bennett
There were frauds in high places official deceit
There were sins, Wen not name them OF ladies
There We're Mexican MURDERS and murders in
Crete.
By the thousand, all manner OF villainies sweet
To the HeraLds subscribers in Hades.
But the numberless horrors of anv degree
Did not wholly dispel his detection
So The HerGLPs a bore, I'm aWeary," says he
Then, uprising, he added, what's this e? Ten
NESsEE
By jingo! here's BrownIow's election!
10 varet fill up till the beaker runs DER! !"
Cried the Dell. growing Joyous and frisky;
White-hot ferruginou5 goblet we bore,
And the liquor was vitriol 'straight' which he
Was less hurtful than tansle foot whiskey.
Gill up let US drink, >" said the Father Of Lies.
10 the mortal whose claims most weighty!'
And light diabolic shOne out Of his eyes
That made the thermometer instantly rise
10 fully tive thousand and eighty.
81 have knights OF the garter and knights of the
Who shall surely hereafter for sin burn
have writer's Of history, ethics romance,
In England, America, Germany France
And a gay little poet in SWiuburno:
''ReFormers, who so in for infinite slnasn
The widows 9rd orphans oppressor;
- Us, by the Dozen, whose titles are trash
TO be written with two little DIS and a dash :
And many Father Confessor
And besides all the hypocrites" chuckled the
Diel,
Who serve me with j ce aud Credo,
have tyrants that murder, commanders that
steal
Dahomey, Mouravioff, Butler, Mcneil.
Thad Stevens, Joe Holt Escobcdo
! But the man Of all others the most to my plnd
The dearest terrestrial creature,
Is the baspheming priest and the tyrant COM
binp6
Who mock9 at his Maker and curses his kind,
IN the garb OF Methodist preacher.
| 'And SO long as of Darkness I'm absolute Prince
From ms praise there shall bo no deduction
whose acts most exquisite malice eyince,
And whose government furnishes excellent hints
Opportunity for HELL's RECONSTRUCTION"
Then the Fiend, with laugh no language may
Drained his cup and, abasins his crown low,
Grled Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" :" and boisterous veil
W eht round till the nethermCSt confines of Hell
He-cchoed ''Thrc0 cheers tor old Brownlov ?"
1t is said that the price asked for the
New York Herald establishment is ST., ,OOO,-
900 in gold.
The governor, alcade and aldermen of a
Cuban city have got into trouble by joining
the Masons.
A Connecticut Radical who is stumping
New York, writes home, giving up the