Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-06-06
TeIemacus versus Mentor.

TBret Harte in Harper's Magazine for june !
Don't mind me, beg you, old fellow, III 90
very well here alone; IlEtfs I.
Yor must not be kept from your German
because Pve dropped in like stone; .
Leave all ceremony behind you, and leave all
thought of aught but yourself;
And leave. If YOU like, the Medeira, and a
dozen cigars on the shelf. ...
AS for me, you will say to your hostess
Well. Tscarcely need give you cue:
Chan, NV rraise! All will list to Apollo,
though Mercury pipe to few;
Saw lust what you please, my dear boy;theres
more elouuence lies in our youth rash
Outspoken heart impulse than ever groWled
under this grizzling mustache.
Go. don the dress coat of our tyrant-youth's
panoplied armor for fight. =,
And tie the white neckloth that rumples, ike
Measure. and lasts but night.
And nray the Nine Gods to avert you whal
time the Three Sisters shall frown.
And you'll lose your high comedy figure, ana
sit more at your ease in your gown.
He's off There's his foot on the staircase.
Bv love. what boundl Really now
did Tever leap like this sprihgald, with Loves
chaplet green on my brow2
Was such an ass? No, fancy. Indeed,
remember quite plain;
A gravity mixed with my transports, cheer
fulness softened my pain.
He's pouel There's the siam OF his cab door,
there's the clatter of hoofs and the wheels,
And while he the light toe Is tripping III tnis
arm chair I'll tilt up my heels.
Gov hot frpn0f
a waist like teetotum spun;
For a rose bud that's orumpled by many DC
fore it is gathered by one
Is there naught in the halo of youth but tho
glow of passionate race
Midst the cheers and applause OF crowd-tc
the goal of beautiful face?
A race that is not to the swift, prize that nc
merits enforce,
Rut is won by some tililseGnt youth who shal
simply walk over the course9
Poor how! shall shock his conceit? When he
talks of her cheeks loveliness,
Shall say twas the air OF the room anu "a'
due to carbonic excess?
That when WALKING she dropped on MS 9ieds'
and the veins of her eyelids grew dim,
Twas oxycen's absence She felt, but nevel
Ln6 pICSCuOO Va hA'
shall 7 tell him First Love is fraud, weak
ling that's strangled in birth, -.
Recalled with perfunctory tears, but lost
unsanctiied mirth? ~
Or shall / 90 bid him believe in all woman
kinds charm, and forget
In the light ringing laugh of the world tn
rattlesnake's gay castanet!
Shall tear out leaf from my heart, iron
that book that forever is shut
On the past? Shall speak of my first love-
Augusta-my Lalage? But
l forget. Was it really Augusta? No. 'Twa
Lucy! No. Mary! No. Di;
Never mind, they were all hrst, ana laithles'
and yet-rve forgotten just why.
No. no. Let him dream on and ever. Alas
he will waken too soon.
And it doesn't look well for October to a
ways preaching at June.
Poor how! All his fond foolish trophies pir
ned yonder-a bow from her hair,
A few biIets d0u1 invitations, and-what
this? My name! ldeclare. ,-- zrs =
Humphl ssYou'Il come, for I've got you
prize-with beauty and money no end:
You know her, think; twas on dit she ono
was engaged to your friendi
Rut she saws that's all over. All, is it5 Swet
Ethel Incompatible maid,
Or. what if the thing were trick?-thls lei
ter so freely displayed
MY opportune presence! No; Nonsense
viii nobody answer the bell?
Call cab Half past tenl Not too late ye1
Oh, Ethel! Why don't you go? Well?
-ssMaster said you would wait" Hang you
master! ''Have ever message to sendf
Yes, tell him I've gone to the German
dance with the friend of his friend.