Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-12
PROLOGrE.
II seems 70 me 'tss hardly fair

While If he's d1H you'll run your chance
OF being Jared, perhsp. disgustedg
And SIMPLY learning in advance
Tina, he must never more be trusted,
And yet / seem 10 hear you say
1--WE think il best that he should know it
That il vii hardly ever pay
This being just a niddlIng poet
But if he sCiH impose his rhymes
50 eul, alike ON saint and sinner,
Wen show him signs Of troublous times,
Right after Corporation Dinnsrl''
Alas, / think IL rather rough
On one not used 70 making speeches,
When there are lawyers-quile ea01Qhg
With nor and nes a man who breaches!
Professors, too. Of every grade,
Well read in divers kinds of learning:
All ready. If a call be made,
With words both elegant and burning.
While /, "to fortune and 10 fame
Unknown" am but a poetaster,
And all the spice my verse can claim
Won't match the pepper in , our caster.
You would have thought me quite too pert,
Had proposed my rhymes for salad!
And poorer stlIl a desSert
VIII prove, fear, this scar Ballad
And 50 | think II hardly fair,
And therefore ask b be protected.
Besides, / soiemnky declare
This calls entirety unexpected.
Indeed, / fad IN, set like one,
Who. with his speech all well iDdited,
Remarks CT. be has scarce bagun-
al didn't erpsct 10 be invited 80
And % ! trust that you'll excuse
Ny verse;, half ex'emporabeOu-.
And pardon my embarrassed Muse,
Although she sing OF things exuaneous.
In fact, you ntme no special theme,
But givs me lioens. quite uDbouDded
And thus your favor II would soeDl,
Makes my confusion worse contour led"
In fancy Oft / rambi- DER
These scenes in winch u,ed 10 figure.
see the Class Of Fiity-fOur,
30 full 81 manly rengtn and vigor.
In numbers taking highest place;
Endued with lire and h-alth PERENNIAL;
And fitted with peeliiar grace
To crown our Mo hers Haif-CentsnnisiI
Their names fondly cherish yet,
For N my Book They ali are written
That BiJle that chano d 10 get,
B.eaus. diia get tue mittent
And. a ] Iok the record Ger,
brsa' be tbi- h,art-felt supplieation
"Go,i BEES Dts Boys Of Fifty-f0Uri
our Haier'S kqrgehf Consultation r.
Ny TeacheIs, TOO, 1 see THIN yet.
OK as let my fancy waSder,
And still 1 never can forget
That some Of them have gone-Up Yonaer
OF hese but little shall he said,
For should make figure sorry,
Were / % euloglze the Dead
The THO grand-sMIrH, PEAsE q ToREEr.
The stately SMITH, whose every word
With rar-st common sense wa. ireightedi
The classic PEAsE. whom, when We heard
Translate, We ielr OurseiUes translated 80
The saint.d Tommy gr4 md old man,
30 good, 80 gentle. aud 10 giftsd
Whose woId. in such pure channels ran,
We seemed most 10 Heagen lifted
And wherefore speak Of Hiring men,
Whose worth provoked my emulation.
Enough. 30 name ih-fn-"LITILE BES"-
That marvellous bump Of Calculation.
And LITTLE BILLY '-unsurp4ssed
Zen BY the foremost Kh-tonciahs!
With CLARK, OF understanding caStt
Who, sDug ~ home, runs FOTeign Aissions.
Aud but year ago to-day
We heard from HIM who makes the Lar 60:
The man who heard our ALGEg-Lra -
The courtIy JAMEsoS of chicago.
And thus each wends his destined way;
Each seem-, brilliant star, 10 wander.
And bright the living chine, to-day,
And brighter stin tie Dead Up Yonder,
Times change. and ,re are changed will
them ="
Old scenes will be repeated never.
And sin the Boys II z. y NJ
Today seem just the same ever.
From their peculiar look and make
No power on earth can ever free them,
And 70, with scarcely a mistake,
We know them a. tar as We can e them
Their liberal culture. broad and pure:
Their creed, both Orthodox and Loyal;
Their noble Deeds, WHICH render sure
That Crown not worn by kings, 30 royal.
Their modest In.ir, their irank address.
Thar asiIOi.r, 20 beiit,ing brOtheIs;-
Allmake il very raie TO guess
That ihtifz NUT b. The best Of mOihers.
Professor, too, seem just the same
These men OF sterling worth and merit:
No difference noticed. save IN name,
No change OF nature or Of spirit.
Ih-se modest man la not expose.
Albeit they need not my protection.
Worthy SUCCESSES, they, OF those
Whom esteemed almost perfection.
Our Catalogue one sign b.irsys
Which jasiifes The declaration,
That Alma Mater. in these days,
l. gaining favor with the nation.
Having Of earthly things lack
Save what she happened TO inherit
OF late she dons a Stately Sac"
Best Jwed as a ard of merit.
But do not fhink that I'm IN yest
In-pired by Mirth, or cen By toddy,
Nor surely b, the BAD possessed
VIII. pronounce this Sac hen body!
Its earthly nature, am sure.
Cannot, one mon.nt. b. disputed
While Alma Matters soul, pure,
Seems with in tenement well suited.
Poor Alma Mater many year
Lived like a spirit fr-ed from fetters,
With scarcely an, footing here.
Save such brings dI.may % debtors.
But nOlc her soils who long have wrought
For her dear sake and delved AID plodced
Are Il led with pleasure nj the thought
That she's no longer disembodied.
This match, Of late resolved upon.
SO strongly urged, 30 well debated,
With much coqueItipg, pro and CON.
At last Is fairly oonsumm.ted.
And pow, with added wealth OF lands,
Heaven make this union most prolific,
Bestow rare gifts through AHgeI-hsndA-
And make its future bez.Ific.
".
We older biotheJs-tbose, 1 mean,
Whose beads with frost are slightly sprinklsd,
Whose cheeks tits clearly 20 be seen,
Fen NOR are just q trife vrinkled-
still hold-so orthodox are we
More TO the spirit than the letter;
SO, while we love the s. a. C.,
We love the Z. Y. NJ slid better
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