Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-25
Echo YArs4.S.

Echo Verses.
some Of them. says writer in All the Year Round
not merely but real poets In their hours
Of merry the construction OF what arc
tnsttons bctweon the Cavaliers aud Roundhoueia a
comedy was acted st Cambridge tho SAVIOR Of which
70 snlcientiy denoted BY such echo verses "a the fol-
lowing; .' 'o
"Now' Echo' on what's religion grounded7"
Roundhoadl"
Who It's professor" most considcrable?"
"Rabble!"
How prove they themselves to be the sodly,"
"Oddly!"
How stand they to the government ciy,l?"
Is But to the king they say they are most !oya,,"
Then God keep king and state from these same
men !" MAman ~
~, TOW years later, whom the fortunes of Charles
echo WINS put FORTH similar in construction and
timont to the foregoing:
what wants thou, that thou art in this takine7"
"a king!"
"What made him first remove hence his residing ~
''siding!''
Di" any he'e deny him s.tiaf.ction," 49,
"FactiOn I"
Tell me "hereon the strength of faction nes9"
"On lies I"
"what didst thou when the king loft parliament, ?"
"Lament !"
{" What terms wouldst give to gain hia company"
"Any!"
"what woni1st thou do if here thou mightst behold
"Hold him"
"o"lost 'hoa save him with thy best endeavor7"
"Ever!
" But If no comes not, what becomes Of London ?"
"Undone !"
In the time Of the Do Wits, when politics ran high
song which displayed much ability :: but the ECHOES
are not easily translatable into English Somewhat
after the time OF those Dutchmen, Samuel Butler
verses do not occnr II which, aithoush regular echo
With in several passages; ~ for example: '
2To tho ne asa On n wSitheF wicked Bruin,
"Ruin!"
"who would grudge to spend his blood in
His honor's cause ?" quoth she
"a pudding!"
In the reign of Queen Anne a rhymester BROUGHT
satire and punnng to his aid in an echo song which
certainly breathes but little Of the pastoral spirit:
III address the Echo yonder,
what VIII Its answer be, wonder!"
81 wonder!"
. 20. xondrous Echo, ten me, bless ZEE,
"silly Bessy! ="
If then TO win the maid try,
Shall 1 ind her property7"
"Aproper tiew
" II neither being grave nor funny
WIN win this maid to matrimonyi"
''Try money!"
If should try to gain her heart,
Shall go plain or rather smart p
"she msynt love dress, and 1, again, then.
may some 700 smart, and she'll complain then"
Come plain theny
90 Then II to marry me tesze her,
what VIII she say If that should please herr ?"
50 Please her!
When cross nor good words can appease her.
What If such naughty whims should seize her I"
YOU'D see, sfr!"
When wed she'n change, for Loves no sticker.
"Then lick her!n
To leave me then can't compel her,
Though every woman else excel herr"
In 1907, bookseller Ut Nuremberg. named Palm
published an echo song, terribly sarcastic upon the
Emperor Napoleon. Marshal Dsvoust, who held SWAY
In Germany It that time, made short work Of the
shot: A translation Of it was composed but, like
most ranslations fails to give the full spirit Of the
of1gnsl: Napoleon 10 supposed to be holding col
" Alone I am in this seques'er'd ,Rot unheard!'
sde stsh Who answers met Whist being is there
Now IL! to report accents Echo has made
"Ask!"
Know'st thou whether London will henceforth con-
tinue to resist 2"
"Resist!"
" Whether Vienna and other courts will oppose me
always?"
What then' must expect after 60 many reyerses,'
Reversed
What saa sso% q Ike coward vile to compound
"Reduced!"
After 90 many bright exploits be forced to restitu-
PROSTITUTION
Restitution Of what I've got by heroic feats and
What will be the fate of SO much tS,, .Rs
WIN, s, vii, become of my people, already too
"Happy!"
What should then be, that think myself immor- |
tl7"
"M0rtalln |
know7"
"Nov |
Formerly ito fame struck the vast globe with ter
ror."
"Errorin
Sad Echo, BECOME grow infuriate; die!"
"Diei"
The late Archdeacon Wrangham, who penned |
many graceful witticisms and lively edusions wrote
N echo song on the same subject as that which
prompted Palm-Nspoleon but he infused pecu-
Jar spirit into it by mixing up together English,