The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-09
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MANY OF our older citizens will remember
wandering Journeyman printer, by the name OF
John Ives, who more than fifty years ago,wrote
the following on yermonts capital, which Is
now reproduced In the woodstock Age. 1t con-
tains many historical facts, and choice hits,
which will evenInow be well rellshed.-Mont-
pelier Journal
Where rapid rolls Winooskis foamlng tide,
Where barren mountains rise on every side,
Where sullen winter relgDs with stormy sway,
And shapeless rocks shut out. one-half the day.
Scooped from the mountain by mighty hand,
little shelf Is found OF level land.
Secure Secure within this darR seguestered glade
Montpelier's glittering spires with pride arise
And eager seek to pierce the azure skies.
Towering they stand beneath the mountains
lea,
AS snug and cosy as a thing can be
Turn your admiring, eyes which way you VIII,
You still Will view the same bare-headed hill.
A nation saw this charming little nest,
And democrats and feds they all confessed
IL was the neatest, Jauntiest little spot
That In Vermont could anywhere be got
Wherein to clap the buildings of the state
In which the radicals might brawl and pirate,
Talk loud about their virtue and morality,
And tell us how they hate rascality;
To bring all human things upon level
And send the runed shirt men to the devil.
Lest legislation from thence should stalk about
Or a flood should come and drown the states
men out,
They leyelled down a ledge on the mountain
Side,
Secure from local change, or flowing tide,
Then chose man they thought had skill to plan
II.
who piled thereon a mass of solid granite,
Gave the whole structure touch exquisite
To immortallze the place, with yearly visit
OF legislators, statesmen, politicians hobbies,
And the mingled mass that throng the halls
and Hobbies.
| II you've never been to Cottrll's or to Mann's
You can't imagine how the various clans
OF politicians, with projects all agOg,
Are grinning, round their flowing cans OF grog;
| Inventing plans and bartering public places,
And trying hard 10 put on honest faces
| None so green but that they'd cheat a brother
| And all agreed in cheating one another.
Some want to revise and alter all the laws,
1 And put guide-board on each doubtful, knotty
l clause,
| so that lawyers can't hunt out single flaw,
Nor ind struggling doubt on which to gnaw
| Some want lottery to build mp public schools
| And see how many people VIII be fools;
Some want turnpike, and some want a ferry
Anxious for bank, where they can borrow
i To pay their executions that are out tomorrow
| There's one, would be justice OF the peace,
l Another wants the pickerel to increase
There's some are wanting money at Nergenncs
To buy the beef, and pork, and cheese anC
| hens,
With which that fertile country's Grand full,
| And all the city wharves are Jam'd full.
Some want to move the arsenal and say
| Experience shows us every single day.
| IL should be on road so round about
| The few that ind 1t never can get out;
| II foe should come we can't abide cm
| And we'd better take our guns and hide 'em
/ Then II we are beat, the foolish noodles
| VIII get no booty but our bodies.