The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26
SATAN N SEARCH OF A SECOND WIFE
BY HIS FIRST MorHER-IN-LAw.


His Majesty Satan, one morning awoke,
And found that his wife was dead
He said to himself, &C This really no joke,
My household requires head
The defunct, here below, a marvel Of worth;
| must seek her successor, above, ON the earth.
q She must be witty and nimble of tongue
Shrewd as the shrewdest OF men,
A beauty, OF course-with me that means young,
Somewhere between twenty and ten;
For would be loved for myself alone
And not for my dark Satanic throneI
:" But far more important than beauty or youth,
Though OF course want those well.
Are the virtues of innocence, candor and truth;
For though people speak evil of He'll,
There duties attached to its leading position,
And the vile Of its Prince must defy all suss
picion.''
So The Devil SET forth on his conjugal quest
Of queen for the realms below
But he found that he lost his natural rest,
And his progress terribly slow;
For the woman ne wanted was hard to find,
And the cares OF his kingdom weighed on his mind.
The daughters of England were lovely, he saw,
nation Of fair-haired queens
But those rosy lips could lay down the law,
And they lived beyond his MEANS
So he quietly wandered over to France, =
And there the Parisians led him dance.
He realls afhougilt for a while he had found
The actual thing that he wanted,
But before he had gone half the Faubourg around,
The devil began 70 be daunted.
Thee ladies are quite beyond me, that is plains
He said TO himself-and he left Tor Spain.
But there, though the women were pretty and kind
Once more he disappointed
They had hearts to be sure, but he wanted mind ;
And their hair was too much anointed.
So again His Majesty sailed forth
And this time he thought he would visit the North
But why should tell of his lengthening work
And OF all the countries he tried
Till he suddenly thought one fine day of New York
And instantly thitherward hied.
but, quick as he was, the women were ready,
They took one look, and they looked him through,
And they saw what he wanted at once;
So innocence beamed from their orDs of blue
And cindOr was queen for the nOnce:
Oh! you should have seen how their eyelids fell
While they timidly asked for the news from Hell
The Devil was fattered and hurried and pleased
What grace what refinement, what sense!
How quickly his notions, half-hnted, were seized,
And nothing he said gave offenseI
He thought he had seen half these beauties before
The better he knew them he liked them the more.
But time was pressing, he could not wait,
Though he scarcely knew how to choose,
So he offered his crown and his royal state
Himself and his dead wife's shoes
To damsel whose candor and virtues intact
Were all that the Devil himself could exact.
She accepted his offer, and did not repent
Nhen the day OF her wedding drew nigh,
For you know that to Hell there's an easy descent
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 married anu safely installed
AS Queen in the regions OF shade
1t is said that the Devil was somewhat appalled,
AT the bargain he found he had made.
And remarked, ''Twould have been, on the whole,
quite as well
Had tarried at home and married in Help