Sharp County record., 1878-06-28
TELENACHUS VERSUS MENTOR.

Don't mind me, beg you, old fellow, III do
very well here alone;
You must not be kept from your German"
because I've dropped in like stone;
Leave all ceremony behind you, leave all
thought OF aught butyourself,
And leave, you like, the Madeira, and doz-
en- cigars on the shell.
As for nae, you will say to our hostess elp
/ scarcely need give you cue.
Chant my praise! All will list to Apollo,
though Mercury pipe to few;
Say just what you please, my dear Ooy
there's more eloquence lies i'll youths
rash
Outspoken heart impulse that ever growled
under this grizzled mustache
Go, don the dress-coat of our tyrant-youth's 8
panoplied armor for light
And tie the white neckclOth that rumpleS,
like pleasure, and lasts but night,
And pray the Nine Gods to avert you What
time the Three Sisters shall 1rOWn,
And you'll lose your high comedy figure, and
sit more at ease in your gown.
Hes Off There's his foot on the staircase.
BY Jove, what u bound! Really now
Did / ever leap like this springald, with
Loves chaplet green Onmy brow!
Was I such an ass2 No, l fancy. Indeed, L
remember quite plain:
a gravity mixed with my transports, cheet-
fulneSs softened my pain.
He's gone! There's the slam of his cab door
There's the clatter of hoots and the
wheels, -.
And while the light toe he is tripping, in this
arm chair l'll tilt up my heels.
He's gone, and for what? For tremor from
a waist like a teetOtum spun;
For a rosebud that's crumpled by many be-
fore it is gathered by one.
Ts there naught in the halo of youth but the
glow of q passionate race
Midst the cheers and applause OF q crowd
to the goal of a beautiiu ul face!
\ race that is not to the swift PRIZE UudV ho
But is won bv some faineam youth who shall
simply walk over the cOuSe:
Poor boy! shall shock his cOnceit? When
he talks OF her cheeks lOvellness,
Shall say twas the air of the room, and was
due to carbOnic excess: ~
That when Waltzing she dropped on his
breast, and the veins of her eyeuds grew
dim, ,,,,,o,.
the presence OF him?
Shall tell him First Love is fraud, weak
ling that's strangled i'll birth,
Recalled with periunctOry tears, DuV IosU III
Or shall / bid him believe in all womankind's
charm, and forget ,.
In the light ringing laugh OF the Worlu the
rattlesnake's gay castlnet!
Shall I tear out leaf from my heart, from
that book that forever is shut
On the past? Shall speak of my first love
Augusta-my Lalage? But
forget. VAST really Augusta? No 'Iwas
Lucy! No. Nary No. D1!
Never mind, they were all first and talChless,
and yet-IVe forgotten just why.
No no. LeShim dreasl on and ever; Hlas! {!
no will wallen too soon;
And it doesn't look well for OCTOBER 10 al
ways be preaching at June
Poor boy! All his fond foolish trophies pm
nedyOnder-a bow, from her halr,
few blletS- dOur, invitations, anU-WhatS
this? My name declare.
Humphl you'll come, for I've got you
prize-with beauty and money no END;
You know her, think: twas on dit she once
was engaged to your friend;
But she saws that's all over" All, is it: Sweet
Ethel! Incompatible maid
Or-what if the thing were trick?-thls let
ter SO freely displayed
NV opportune presence! No! nonsense
viii nobody answer the bell!
Call a cab! Half past ten! Not too late On,
Ethel Why don't you go? Weu'
"Master said you would wait" Hang your
master! "Have l ever message to
send"
Yes, tell him I've gone to the German to
dance with the friend of his friend.
Bret HGrte, in Harper'S for June,