The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1867-12-20
Choife 9oetry.
THE DEVILS DELIGHT.

| To breakfast one morning tho Devil came down
by demons aud vnssals attended;
A headache had darkencd III brow with frown
From his orgie last night. or tho weight of III,
crown
But his presence Internal was splendid.
In a robe Of red flame was diavolo dres,.
Without smu'ch OF q clnder to soil II;
Blue bla,cs enveiopcd his throat aud his chest.
| While the tail, tied with ribbons as blue an hi.
| vest,
Completed his Mives,y's toilet.
No masquerade devil If earth could begin.
with his counterfeit horns and his mock tai
To look like his m dal, Original Sin
As or lava AMI light inng AMI blttcrs and Yin
He sat and compounded n cocktail.
But to give, in nj CONSCIENCE thu Devil his du.
He seemed sIrrnwfil r,hrr than irao;
And his MaJ"st mopcL all lie dcjeun,r thr,,tip,,
with twitch, now ana then, OF the ribbons o,
blue,
And the took Of patient pirate.
Then smile such MS follows some capital Ioke
Ola Dickens, Hood, or Jerrold
sweet playful, and tender, all suddenly broke
Ger the face ofSathanas. as turning he spoke,
60 imp bring the file OF the Aerald,'
The Papers were brought, and Old Nick ran hi,
his eye
In default OF debates In the Scna,e)
over crlmcs--thcre were plenty-of terrible dvc
over letter and telegram, Islander and lie
And the blathcrskite leaders of bennett.
There were frauds In high places. official dec,,,.
ihe'e were S'ns-weH not name them-of
ladies';
There were Mexican murders. and murders In
Crete
by the thousand-all manner of vllaInies sweet
10 Inc ieralds subscribers IN Hades
But the hunnherless horrors OF every degree
Did not wholly dispel his detection;
The Herald bore-.Im aweary," says he.
Then uprising, he added, WHAT'S thi-5" .yen.,,.
SEER
by lingo: here's Brovnlow's election,
"Ho, ret. fill up till the bcaker rups o.erw
Cried the Devil, growing joyous and risky
white hot forruginous goblet he bore,
And the liquor was vitriol "straight which se
swore
was less hurtful than tangle.foot whisky.
"Fill up! let us drink" said tho Father ofIies
10 ., me mortal whose claims are most weigh
And light dlabolic shone out of his eyes
That made the thermometer instantly rise
To fully five thousand and eighty.
u have knights OF the garter AMI knights Of the
lance,
Who shall surely hereafter for sin burn:
have writer's of history. ethics, romance,
In England. America, Germany, France,
And gay littlo poet In Swinburne
"Reformer'. who go in for Infinite smash;
The widows and orphans oppressor;
ID. DIS by the dozen, whose titles are trash,
To be written with two little dis and o dnsh:
And many n Father Confcssor.
And besides all the hypocrtes," chuckl cd the
Devil,
who serve me with Arc and Crcdo,
have tyrants that MURDER, commanders tim,
steal,
Dahomey, Mouravle n, Butler O'Neill,
Ihad. Stevens, Joe Holt, Escobedo.
But the man OF all Others the most to my mind
III" dearest terrestrial creature.
iS 'hc disappearing pricsI and I! Q 'yiant com
bined
VINO nbcks at his Maker and ,urscs his kind,
IN the Barb of political preacher.
And so long as OF Darkness I'm absolute prime.
from ms praise there shall be no deduction.
"ho.e acts most exquisite malice evince,
Ana Whose gov rnmert furnishes excellent hints
opp"rtunely for HELL's REcoSsTRucrIoS."
hen The Fiend, with laugh that no Language
may tell,
orainei his cup. m a5asns his crpwn 10
ri'd, Hip. Hip!' and u boist"rous yell
Went r"und til the nethermost confines Of Hcl!
Rc-cchoed "rhrce cheers for old Browniow!"