The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-02-23
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REAVIS, RIDE.
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Grated, one who has gone on rom bad to verse
submits the following idyllic version Of the
affair:
Up from the Senate at high MONDAY,
Bringing to Radicals fresh dismsy,
The affrighted air with shudder bore
Like herald in haste, the city Ger,
The terrible tidings-the rumbls, the roar
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Beavis four long miles away
And wider still those pillows OF war
Thundered along over the Capitol Square,
And louder yet through Columbus rolled
The wrath of Republicans, uncontrolled,
Making the blood Of the listener cold,)
As they swore, when they thought Of that
fiery fray,
And High Bridge Beavis four miles away.
But from that Asylum road runs down.
A good broad highway that leads to town;
And there passed by, as with eagle flight,
(Or more like streak of Jersey light
Ning) Beavis and horse and messenger boy,
In hot haste that made the weather thaw-ey.
Full well knew Beavis tho terrible need,
And he shouted "Glang~ IS he larruPed his
steed,
Hills rose and fell-but their hearts were gay,
With Beavis only three miles away
Still Clattered those hoofs like the telegraphor's
click;
AS they swept like comet, on faster and
faster,
Foreboding to Democrats doom and disaster
The heart OF tho steed and the heart Of the
master
Were beating like prisoners assaulting their
walls,
Impatient to be where the battlefield calls.
Every nerve of the charger was strained to
full play,
With Beavls only two miles away.
Under that horses feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed;
And tn 9 landscape sped away behind,
Like an ocean flying before the wind.
Far behind, like a snow storm in winters
bloom,
From mouth and nostril# fell fecks of foam,
And the telegraph polest seemed fine-tooth
comb;
While Beavis "laid on" in Mscdufian style
He was bound to win and made things "bile.'
He urged on his horse with threat'nings dire,
And his "innards' were like a furnace of fire
But lol he Is nearing his hearts desire,
He is shutting the Senatorial fray
Where the wicked swear and the pious pray
That Beavis may come and win the day)
And he is only one mile away
at the Capitol door the one-hoss shay
Drew up with jerk; for the deucs was the
pay
And Beavis must take the trick with the trey
What was done-what to do-a glance told
him both,
And he dashed up the stairs with G terrible
oath;t
On through the corridors he few like the
dickens,
With crowd at his heels-like hen and her
chickens.
"GO it, Beayisl" they shouted, "Put in yer
best Icks,
In two minutes more you wont be worth
shucksl"
He entered the hall midst a storm of applause
And Democracy's jig was up, because
The right of Herr Beavis compelled them to
pause.
His friends gathered round the patriot 50 true
And with unction and fervor cried: "Bully
for yotf"
PhiIs the messenger boy seemed proudly to
say:
II have brought you Beavis, all the way
From the Idiot Home, to save the day"
Hurrah hurrah for the Twelfth Ward Man
Hurrah for boy and horse and when
The great "high bridge" is reared on high,
Away up there in the bright blue sky,
Well place their statues upon it; and Fame
Shall write the gallant Beavis' name,
And say, in letters both bold and bright
'Behold the man who saved the day
By driving down, to get into the fight,
From the Asylum, four long miles away"
The horses not Beavis'.
= Te %baro Iuara oDy.