The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-01-03

With tears and fasting, accounts ever cast
ing,
As we "swing around the circle"
The temple Of "Janus," wide open Of
POurs bright beam Of light upon Para
guay's fate,
The allies discounted, beat a retreat,
And Justice triumphant proclaims their
defeat,
So be it when Freedom and Tyranny meet,
As we "swing around the circle"
I'm dying to witness the sort ofHgures
Congress will cut with traitors and "nig-
A Speaker of the Senate will shortly be
made
"God send," pray the rebels, aft may not
be Wade"
The Presidents "policy" proving perni-
ciUus,
Concert certain codes to curb the oapricious,
And have hempen halters to hang high the
issues
OF parttes-proventing the breeding of
BY strangling the pups as they come to
Ere ever they wax into "dogs Of war;"
To be "let slip" as says bully Sh1' G.
spedr-el
II tried and condemned the arch-rebel be,
He yet will swing from "the sour apple
tree"
And from limb reserved for him,
The guilty Surratt will meet a like fate,
| While the loud, long roll of John Browns
soul
VIII wall in the wind to their final goal,
As we "swing around the circle"
Centennial year, now disappears
Your madness has methoddst) in 1t, I
fear,
And money besides to build and endow
Churches and schools, but no HamLets I
trow,
As we "swing around the circle"
And now let me sing of the "ntce young
! men,"
The exquisite snobs of the "Upper Ten"
| Who mimic the strut of the peacock, when
| His tail in full feather, ofsunshiny weather,
Mixes beauty and pride-Uell and Heaven
together,
He learns to stare, with nonchalant air,
And twirl his moustache, and frizzle his
hair,
And to sip his toddy and puff his cigar!
He keeps fast horse, a dog and a gun,
And kills only Time and thinks it is fun;
And often complains of feeling blue,
And vaguely longs for something to do;
Is tired of billiards and weary of cards,
Curses the papers and sneers at the bards
Tries dancing and skating and courting
and all,
And finally gets up a club of "Baso Ball."
And frequents saloons at the dead hour of
night,
To rise very late with his head in sad plight,
And dreams after a while great man he
will be;
His fame will be sounded far over the sea;
He will plead at the bar and preach from
the stand
"I'm surely the incest young gent in the
land I"
Now look in the glass and behold an-ass :
Don't shrink in terror from the mirror,
Your weight is a hundred pounds Of
| brass!
Capacity eight gallons Of gas,
A conceited, perfumed, bedeviled mass
| You're a counterfeit, sir, and will not pass
As we "swing around the circle"
The ''1,ice young lady'-her mothers
joy
At labor her hands can never employ
| The nice young lady-her fathers pet,
Has never baked an apple pie yet;
The nice young lady is learning to draw
(But she cannot draw pail of wuter)
She draws-very well-a sprig of the law,
Who comes accounting the old mans
daughter,
The nice young lady cannot knit,
Can she make pudding? not a bitl
She can polka anC waltz, and simper and
sing;
All! such an accomplished, charming
thingl
She has rings, and rats, and waterfalls
Receives and returns such formal calls
She can tiltas high and dress as gay,
As butterfly, on a charming day;
She sits as proud as a goddess Diana!
And daintily thrums her grand piano!
She goes to COllege-gets diploma
What she don't know, let no one show me,
She tutors her eyes to seem languishing--So!
And soon has the "nice young gent" for
beau,
They bill and coo, and futter and firt
He gets a doll, and she "squirt,"
When the nice young lady and gent are
we'd
Yet nevertheless they will not bless,
But curse the day with bitterness,
As we "swing around the circle"
Since "brevity," it is "the soul of wit :"
The usual fee please hand to me,
And I'll bore you no more, buthero will quit
| "Swinging around the circle"
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