The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
SATAN IN SEARCH OF A SECOND WIFE.
Br HIS FIRST MorHER-IN-LAw.

His majesty, Satan, one morning awoke,
And found that his wife was dead;
he said 10 hims If, This is really no joke,
MY household requires head;
The defunet, here below, was a marvel ofworlh;
1 must seek h-r successor, above, on the earth.
"she must be witty and nimble of tongue,
Shrewd as the snrewdest OF men,
A beauty of course-with me that means young
-somewaeIe betwe twenty and ten;
For would be loved for myself alone,
And not for my dark Satanic throne.
81 But far more import ant than beauty or youth +,
Though OF course want those as well,
Are the virtues OF innocence, candor and trutni
For though people sPeadk ey s 1 aa ae nos,on
And the wife of its prince must DEFY all sus-
picion."
Sothe Devil set forth on his conjugal quest
or a queen for the realms below,
But he found that he lost his natural rest,
And his progress was terribly slow;
For the woman he wanted was hard TO find,
And the cares o. his kingdom weighed on his
mind.
The daughters of England were lovely, he saw,
A nation OF falr-hafred queensi
But those rosy lips could Ia down the law,
And they lived beyond his means
So he quietly wandered over to France,
And there the Parisians lea him dance.
He really thought for while he had found
Tne actual thing that ne wanted,
But before he had gone half the Faubourg
around,
"These ladies quite beyond me that is
He said 10 himself-and he left for spain.
But there, though the women were pretty and
Once mere he was disappointed.
They had hearts, 70 be sure, bu, he wanted
And their hair was too much anointed.
SO again his majesty sailed forth
And this time ne thought he would visit the
North.
But why should tell Of his le9gthsening work
TIL he suddenly thought one fine day of New
And Instantly thitherward hied.
But, quick he was, the women were ready,
Their hea1s were clear and their hearts were
steady.
They took one look, and they looked him
tn -ougb,
And they saw what he wanted at once;
So innocence beamed from their orbs of blue
And candOr was queen Tor the nonce.
Oh you should have seen how their eyellds fell
While they timidly asked for the news from
Hell.
What grace, what refinement, what sense!
How quickly his notions, half limited, were
and nothing he said gave offense!
He thought he had seen half these beauties be-
The better he knew them he liked them the
more.
But time was pressing, he could not walt,
Though he scarcely knew how to choose,
50 he offered his crown and his royal state,
Himself and his dead Wiies shoes
TO damsel whose candoI and virtues intact
Were all that the devil himself could exact.
She accepted his offer, and did not repent
When The day OF her wedding drew nigh,
For you know that to He'll there's an easy de-
scent,
And~her friends would drop in by and by,
While the devil declared himself more and more
bleSt
AS the innocent creature he tenderly pressed.
But when she was married and safely installed
AS queen in the regions of shade,
1T is said that the devil was somewhat ap.
paII5d
At the bargain ne found he had made,
And remarked, A." 'Twould have been, on the
whole, quite we'll
Had tarTied at home aad married in Hel?"