Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-01
Echo Verses.

of merry relaxationin the construction of what are
designated Echo Verses. During the mutual recrin-
nations between the Cavaliers and Roundheads
comedy was acted at Cambridge, the SAVIOR of which
is sufficiently denoted by such echo verses as the fol
lowing
Now, Echo, on what's religion grounded?"
" RoundheadI"
Who its professors most considerable2n
"Rabble!n
!" How prove they themselves to be the godly?'
"Oddly!n
" How stand they to the government ciy1l?"
" But to the king they say they are most Ioyalp'
Then God keep king and state from these same
men J" 'EAmen ~
few years later, when the fortunes of Charles
had become dark and threatening, another royalist
echo put FORTH similar in construction and
tment to the foregoing:
" What wants thou, that thou art in this taking?"
What made Kim first remove hence his residing ?"
'Si6ing!''
:" Did any here deny him satisfaction?'
"Faction !"
Tell me whereon the strength of faction Hes?"
"On lies !"
g What didst thou when the king left parliament"
{" Lament !"
What terms wouldst give to gain his company ?"
"Any!"
What woulds thou do if here thou mightst behold
him y
HHold him!"
g Wouldst thou save him with thy best endeavor?"
Ever ~
But if he comes not, what becomes of London?"
4" 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 ranslatable into English. Somewhat
after the time of those Dutchmen, Samuel Butler
wrote his Hudibras, in which, although regular echo
do not occur there are bits of echo to be 1ne
with in several passages; as for example,
Quoth he, " Oh whittier, wicked Bruin,
art thou fed to my"
s.Ruin!"
''Who would grudge to spend his blood in
His honor's cause ?" quoth she.
"a puddingw
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
eff 1 address the Echo yonder,
What will its answer be, I wonders"
''I wonder!"
"0h, wondrous Echo, tell me, bless zee,
Am for marriage ceibacy -
Silly Bessyp'
" If then to win the maid try,
SLau ma ner property z"
ga proper tie ~
If neither being grave nor funny
VIII win this maid to matrimony?"
Try moneym
. If should try to gain her heart,
Sha1 go PLAIN, or rather smart2"
HSmarf ~
9 She mayn't love dress, and I, again, then.
May come too smart, and she'll complain then"
Come plain then =
g Then if to marry me teaze her,
What viii she say if that should please herr"
g Please her!"
q When cross nor good words can appease her.
What if such naut hty whims should seize her?''
you'd see, sirI"
''when wed she'll change, for Loves no sticker,
And love her husband less than hquor'
'sThen lick her!,
To leave me then can't compel her,
Though every woman ese excel her ~
"Sell her!'
In 1867, 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, a tran station of it was composed but Tx
most TRANSACTIONS it fails to give the full spirit of he
original. Napoleon is supposed to be holding col
loquy with Echo:
. Alone, am in this seques,er'd spot unheard!'
"Unheard ~
|
nigh 2"
NOW guess to report my accents Echo has made
her task !"
g Knowist thou whether London viii henceforth con-
tinue to resist?'
"Resistw
whether Vienna and other courts will oppose me
always?"
sAlwaysI"
What, then, must expect after many reverses?'
Reverses ~
" What should like coward vile to compound be
reduced!n
"Reduced ~
After many bright exploits be forced to restitu
Restitution ~
Restitution of what I've got by heroic feats and
martial address 2"
What will be the fate of much toll trouble
"Troublein
" What viii become of my people, already too un-
happy"
"Happyw
" What should I then be, that think myself immor-
taI?"
Mortal ~
The world is filed with the glory of my name, you
know"
"Nor
Formerly its fame struck the vast globe with ter
ror."
Error 7"
" Sad Echo, begone. grow infuriate, die ~
90 Die !"
The late Archdeacon Wrangham, who penned
many graceful wittcisms and lively illusions wrote
an echo song on the same subject as at which
prompted Pam-Napoleon; but he infused pecu-
nar spirit INTO it by mixing up together English,
french, Italian, and Latin. There are fourteen
echoes, belonging to as many couplets.