The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-11-01
2oetieal.
THE GREELEY CROW.
BY CARL BRET.

Once upon rainy morning, was half asleel
and scorning
| All my outward mans adorning, dreading u
get up once more,
Through the morning, grim and yellow, sud
denly there came a below,
As OF some belated fellow screeching at m,
chamber door.
''Tis some wretched dun, NJ mutttereds screeci
ing at my chamber door,
Only this, and nothing more.
Just before the morn, I mention, L heard from
that Convention.
Where they nominated Greeley and Mis-
souri's great bore;
And lay there. feeling badly, thinking oyel
matters sadly,
Wishing vainly.wishing msdly that Conven.
tions were no more.
That the swindling, base Conventions meier
could cheat the people more: +.
For my heart and head were sore
had been as fondly hoping, during the dark
and dismal cropping
In the regions OF disaster. hung'rtng for the
public store,
That the Liberal folks: would give us some
potato to relieve us,
That they never would deceive us as we'd
been deceived before;
But the thought Of Horace Greeley and the
platform made me sore.
Made me very sick and sore.
as listened, came the screechIng through
the misty morning reaching,
Once again my ears beseeching, screeching at
nv chamber door
"Be thou creature or perdition, !" said I, "or
child elysian,
Worse thou art not than the vision that has
haunted me once more"
Vision of old Horace Greeley and the great
Missouri BORE
May that vision come no more,
Enter" And there came q creature, like a
fowl in form and feature,
With the black funeral feathers and the as
pect of a crow,
Though his eyes were hard and steely, yet its
face was soft and vealy,
And 50 like Horace Greeley did the frighttul
figure grow,
That could not help but wonder whether 1t
were man or crow
Vile, disgusting. carrion crow.
Then said: "Thou direful phantom, ofthe
carrion tribe the bantam,
Wherefore hast thou come a-screeching,
screeching at my chamber door?
ghosts from realms supernal, or foul
iend from fires internal.
Write within my daily journal thy cognomeu.
Iimploie,
Write thy name and whence thou camest and
thy station, implore."
Wrote the creature: Baltimore"
Wild screamed, Tremendous liar thou
shall burn in endless fire,
'orthe black and baseless falsehood that thy |
claw has dared to score!
ience with such vile invention At The |
Baltimore Convention
ireeley's name will have no mention, viii be |
heard of never more;
lie and Brown will be forever gently laid up
on the floor,
And be heard of nevermore."
.uoth the cresture: "Pimp and pander,
wherefore raisest thou thy dander?
'Ieasant drunkard. gentle horse thief, honest
Jail bird, list to me-"
hen felt my heart was sinking, at the crea-
ture's baleful winking,
md his horrid eyes were blinking, while he
said; "'Tis true you see,
rue that you must starve forever, or must /
blindly swallow me,
Shut your eyes and swsllow me-"
Youmust take me foot and feather, and must
swallow ali together,
It my horny bill beginning, ending with my
horny toes"
h, but was gaunt and hollow, with my
hunger lean and sallow,
md made mighty swallow, though my
rebel stomach rose,
With my gullet choked with feathers. and
palate scratched by toes
Shut my eyes and held my nose.
hen thought, "Of all the fetid drugs that
e'er to men were meted,
or disease the deepest seated, nought like
this was known before;
ugar coated and alluring, it would still be
past enduring;
fit doesn't do the curing, shall never doc
tormore;
will die and be forgotten, and will visit
earth no more.
Never go to Baltimore.
A4CA win felt
stomach rising,
md fearful sickness seized me, burning
out ofevery pore,
N my knees my form humbled, all my in
wards roared and runnbled,
md the mess disgusting tumbled, black, and
foul upon the floor;
IL the crow that 1 had swallowed lay before
me on the floor,
Dark and dirty on the floor.
hen said: "ofal the dishes, If of beasts or
birds or fishes,
II of creeping things suspicious. that NOR
tai ate before,
'othing ever passed my gullet halt as bad Is
that black pullet,
md hope some friendly bullet may out
stretch me on the floor,
ever am so crazy as to swallow any more,
Crows my weakness-nevermore,