Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-02
Echo Verses.

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on1edy was acted at Cambridge, the SAVIOR OF which
sufficiently denoted by such echo as the fol-
lowing
Now, Echo, on what's religion grounded:"
Roundhead!"
"Rabble. :"
How prove they themselves to be the gody?"
"Oddly!"
How stand they to the government civil"
"Evil!"
8. But TO the king they say they are most loyal!"
"Lie ALL"
.Then God keep king and state from these same
:. Amen =
few years later when the fortunes OF Charles l
had become dark and threatening, another royalist
echo was put forth, similar III construction and
timpnt to the foregoing:
what wants thou, that thou art in this taking?"
"a king!r
What MADE Kim first remove hence his residing?"
"Sding!''
.Did any here deny him satisfaction"
"Faction J"
Tell me wherein the strength OF faction lies?"
"On lies :"
What didst thou when the king lett parliament?"
lament"
what terms wouldst give to gain his company"
ANY ~
what woulds thou do if here thou mightst behold
hing
Wouldst tuou save him with thy best endeavor?"
Ever"
But if he comes not, what becomes of London?"
"Undone!"
In the time Of the De Wits when politics ran high
in Holland there was sarcastic and satrical echo
song which displayed much ability but the echoes
are not easily trauslatable into English. Somewhat
after the time of those Dutchmen, Samuel Butler
wrote his Hudibras in which, although regular echo
verses do not occur there bits of echo be met
with in several Passages; as for example,
Quoth he, - On whittier, wicked Bruin,
"Ruin."
.who would grudge to spend his blood in
HI, honors cause ~ quoth She,
"a pudding!"
In the reign of Queen Anne rhymester brought
satire and punning to his aid in an echo song which
certainly breathes but little of the pastoral spirit:
If address the Echo yonder
What viii its answer be- wonder?"
~ wonder."
ION, wondrous Echo, tell me, bless zee,
"siny Bessym
at then TO win the maid try,
Shall find her a lroperty?"
"Aproper :"
" II neither being grave nor funny
VIII win this maid to matrimony?"
Try money!
"If should try to gain her heart,
Shall go plain, or rather smart?
.'Smart -
She mayn't love dress, and I, again then,
May come too smart, and she'll complain then"
Come plain then"
- Then il to marry me | teaze her
What Will she say If that should please herr"
"Please her!"
''when cross nor good words can appease her.
What II such uaus Lty whms should seize herr"
You'd see, sir"
.twhen wed she'n change, for Loves no sticker.
And love her husband less than liquor"
"rhen lick her.
TO leave me then can't compel her.
Though every woman else excel herr
Sell her :"
In 1907. BOOKSELLER at Nuremberg, named Palm, |
published echo song, terribly sarcastic upon the
Emperor Napoleon. Marshal Davoust, who held sway
IN Germany at that time, made short work of the
matter; he tried Palm by military law, and had him
shot. translation of it was composed but, like
most Transitions, II fails to give the full spirit of the
original. Napoleon is supposed to be holding col
loquy with Echo;
Alone, am in this sequesterd spot unheard!'
"Unheard !"
"sdcath: Who answers me? What being is there
nlgh?'
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her task -
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whether Vienna and other courts will oppose me
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