The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-01
II. HEROIC.

| o, Ph9bus, hear, and MUSES. nine,
And all ye powers enthroned above,
Hep me wreath of verse to Irvine,
| In honor of the town we love!
Thy mellow flute, o Pan. be mute,
| Nor Orpheus sweep the sounding strings
Let Arion's dolphin witching lutte
Be quiet while the poet sings.
And may my verse be ali sublime
| Though Father Homer sometimes mods
The noblest offering OF time,
An honor to Olympian gods!
Where Cottonwood in thunder pours
His turbid seas to join the main,
And deep Neosho southwark roars,
| And strives to burst his bonds in vain
There, girdled by the swelling floods,
| Behold green and lovely mound,
| Where shining rocks and swelling woods
And hills stand sentinel around.
There, throned upon her sunny height,
4 Behold the Queen, whose word is law,
The seat Of learning, wealth. and might;
The city of EmporiaI
There Mayor GRAHAM fills the throne,
Whose word the listening realms obey
There JACOBS stills the sick mans moan,
Till dark Miasma flies away. g,
There RUGGLEs hurls the bolts of law;
There BUCK is known to realms afar;
And holding courts IN wondering awe,
There GILLETT triumphs at the bar:
There SoDEN binds the rocky band
Around the rivers tOIling streams;
For HIRTH and GILMORE, close at hand.
The jig.saw tolls, the rip-saw scrGamsl
Upon our city's stateliest street
The palaces of trade arise;
There NEwMAN's stock Is hard 10 beat.
There BANCROFT beams with smiling
eyes,
Three famous SMITHS embattled stand;
There HALL inspires the poets verse,
And stately trOwsers, vast and grand,
Adorn the walls Of CLAPP and BE
There JOHN and HALLBERC rear the trees
Whose arms our latest y ears shall shade,
And AMRs and HIcKoX well can seize
The shadow, ere the substance fades.
The wisdom of uncounted years
Is piled were Fox his covert makes:
And SCHMIDLING slaughters mightIset
steers,
And GRAFFENsTEIN hath Christmas
steaks,
And FRY hath gems for fairies ears.
And HINKLE's chimney never breaks.
And HARVEY, HANKLA, WILLIAM,
WICKs,
For New Year feasts have roval fare.
And SPENCER well can potions mix.
And MOORE hath onguents rich and
rare.
Amid his piles Of shining steel
There GRIFFITH evermore abldes,
And TERRY, SEDGwICK. WEAVER deal
In law, while EPSTEIN deals in hides.
McCARTY, BAcHKLLRR, are known.
Where justice holds her shining scales,
And LAWRENCE stills the sick mans
moan,
And HIBBEN's physic never fails.
The hand OF WRIGHT can triumphs win.
Where fell Malaria swoops I'm wrath,
And PIERCE and HALLRcK never sin
While scaling boards and counting lath.
In all the fame that stoVepipes claim
McMURTRTE can . song inspire,
And COOK and THEIs make soles as nice
AsCoNNoR's changeless wagon-tire.
For these let pGans grand and high
Ring though the fair Castflian grove,
~AAA SAoAC INC pLAlATS OF LQS SKY,
The brazen towers Of mighty Jove:
III. PATHETIC.
Sing, ye mournful Muses.,
While the tear drops pour,
AL the fluctuations
or eighteen seventy.four.
Sing the fierce siroceo
Blowing from the south.
br1ngt ng up the dust-cIouds,
Bringing down the drouth,
By the wicked weather-cIerk
Thus we all were hoeussed,
TIL the southwest wind, Kee-way~atn.
Brought the hateful locust.
lis sorry subject
For the poets song,
% wen not continue
On this topic long
But evermore maintaining
A rigid upper lip.
Veil keep the ball q rolling,
And We won't give up the ship.
". SCIENTIFIC.
Try 10 think, without a spasm,
D. Err. Huxley's ProtoPlasm,
Tor we're mede-both wise and silly
rom that same pEimeval jelly.
ct no rude irreverent jester l.
eout his anthropoid ancestor
ct not Beecher-TiIton-BoW II
And the scandals Of the nation,
leep our thoughts from Mr. Owen
And "AaterializetiOa..
We will each be an adorer
4 Professor Riley's bOrer,
Iothing shall be 30 terrible
Int we'll all be scIentifiel
'aeh shall burn with great Ideas
4 that comet Of COggia's
Fith its tail, 80 trim ana taper.
'uilt Of hydro-carbon Yapor.
stanus shall never gnP MS
alking Of tbs ProsOhippus.
'iaotherum can't scare rs TX
IyptodOn NOR pleaIosaurus Il
or the squaiodOnt selaehian.
aIeotheFiaRs Or batraehIas. lie
rom Atlantic 70 Pseiac,
Re viii all be scientific. !.