Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-02
A RHYME FOR THE TIMES.

sdicated 10 Madam Rum0r and her dccomplices.
Old Father Time is a weaver grand,
And he works for all in every land,
Weaving their web of doom.
Six Thousand years the records say,
He has woven on both night and day,
Never leaving his mystic loom.
Yet resteth not when his work is done
Tho both may have pa ssed away.
1t matters not what i'll betides
With arrowy swiftness his shuttle glidss
Though now he is old and gray.
Yet of all the webs, wrosght in all the looms,
For palace halls, within stified rooms,
By coarse or a fairy hand,
The tceb of scandal oftenest fnds,
In years of plenty or hard times
market through the land.
'Tis woven in an unseen loom,
But how or where, when or by whom
One need not hope to snow.
And yet all classes, young and old,
The weak. the timid, fearless, bold,
A sample have to show.
Mistress and Misses surnamed Theysay
Furl ish material the Iivelong day
For listening weavers shy.
While Madam kumor, MP and down,
Peddtes the fabric through the town,
To ali who wish to buy.
As some to gossips are inclined,
III weave for them bit of rhyme,
and whisper in their ear
little secret--guari IL well,
And never to another tell
What now from me you hear.
Said Mistress A to Mistress b,
One afternoon while drinking tea,
Say have you heard the newsi"
The nsws9 Why no, cannot tell,
Bat what you seem TO know 30 wsll
Pray tell NEEDN'T refuse"
Perhaps It's something that youva heard,
But If you've not, don't say word;
Ii may story be-
And should we find il really so
should not like to have il 20
From either you OF me.
well don't you think, that G. DE
is dead in love with Il. 4. q.
And takes her all around
And for their conduct here and there,
They neither seem 10 think or care,
lis talked all over town
and sule am heard K say,
She was engaged TO ii. |. j.
She feared 'tw0uld break his heart
Unless he courted l.. NJ. N.
They live so near, he might again,
For she will do her part +"
We'll now say If that is SO
Why can't tell my friend Miss 0.
She knows them both qoite wellf"
why yes, but have her promise you
That II we find it is not true,
That she will never tell.'
When Mistress A. had sought her home
And Mistress Is. was left alone,
Her footsteps quickly tend
To the Misses for friendly chat,
On yarioss things-now this, now that,
'Nong other things their dear friend.
why have you heard that C. d. z,
Is now engaged to E. \. CO.
They'll soon be married too"
Engaged He's only met her thrice
And called upon her once or twice,
I'm sure that cant he true"
why what wife for him she'll make,
More than his patience it will take
To live with her till Fall,
And then his friends, the X, 8. rs,
And all her friends, the X, Y. rs,
Won't fancy that at all"
'But married they will surely be,
Unless on what We hear and see
We can't at all depend.
Wish them JOY and peace and bliss,
bul should they ever hear OF this,
Tour friendships at an end!'
And now the moral you shall hear,
I'll give ii frankl, without fear,
And then my rhyme is done.
Be you to others kind and true,
As you'd have others be to you,
And nerer talk for fun.
For should all gossips make a rule
To tell no tales from scandals school,
Unlt SIS they we'll could prove them,
You'd walk all day the lonely street,
For seldom there man youd meet,
More seldom still a tvoBldn.
Grove Feb 10th ELM N