The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-03-21
THE ST. GILES.
It's Grand Opening on the 18th Done
Up in Rhyme.

Mr.. EDIToR:-Pve hunted through all tn
great poets
For . model of verses and styles
OF expression 70 suitably clcthe this prosai
Quartrain 70 our princely st. Giles.
Correspondents have scribbled, reporter
have tabled,
And editors exhausted their wiles,
To conjure up languagei in prose that oulc
honor
The Opening of the St. Giles.
The evening the Isth) seemed blesred of the
gods;
The heavens were clothed in sweet smilsa
The winds, gently laden with springs ten
d'rest perfumes.
Waited amourously through the st. Giles
And kissed into bushes sweet faces, ecstatic
With pleasure that softly beguiles,
And 'raptured the hearts already enchanted
With the glsdness that filed the st. Giles,
The guests-ths elite of all this brave coun-
try
Gathered in far and near and for miles
The grandess assembly many eyes ever wit
That met TO honor our St. Giles.
Bright chandeliers glared with unequaled
Thro' Psrlois, grand halls and long aisles.
And Thousand glad faces reflected the glitter
That blazed through the palace st. Giles.
Grand paintings suspended from walls bright
ly polished
Costly fixtures filed hooks and defles-
Com@Srtments respondent with roya equip
Thrown wide to the guests of St. Giles.
What wonder that joy ran frenEied and
seized
The hosts in his Aolicsome toilsl
What wonder the guests were transHxed in
OF the glories of the St. GilesI
The Host, to prIncely gentility high-born,
The Hostess all radiant with smiles,
The Committees of gents, urbAne to fault,
|. Did the honors Of the st. Giles,
And with unfsigned suavity and amiable
mood,
Omnipresent, each minute beguiles
Into furnishing pleasures innumera bic, sweet,
For the guests Of the elegant st. Giles
A hall filed with dancers, to music enchant-
ing,
Thro' sinuous mazes and tortuous defiles
Made merry the hours with frolic and revel,
And filed with rejoicing the st. Giles.
Waltz, seho:tische and polka, minuet and CO.
tillion,
Reels, sArabands, hornpipes, quadrilles,
Riga doons, boleros, fandangos and gavots,
Were danced all over Ct. Giles.
Fun, frolic, festivity, jubilant revelry,
And humor that never defles,
with wit, rePartee, jest, pun, ePigram,
Made gay the symmetric st. Giles.
At fashionable hour, the banquet an
nounced,
The guests, in couples and files,
Abandoned the dance and, jesting aside,
Took 81 bstantiAl view of st. Giles.
TIE grand dining hall ,festooned and adorned
With evergreen arches and piles,
Was opened to all aud the guests hurried in
To honor still moro the St. Giles.
The tropics and far-fAmed sea isles
Luscious treasures upyielded to render the
tables
Unexcelled, for guests Ofst. Giles.
Cakes built into monuments, trimmed with
taste unexampled,
All manner of viands in tiles
Fit feast for the angels, or kings courts and
princes
Was spread on the boards of St. Giles.
In parlors and halls, in dining room. cham
bers,
In closets, hooks, corners, defles,
Every there was grandeur and plsnte-
Gus display
In keeping with all the st. Giles.
Jeweled fashion, embslished in tinsel and
gid,
Gorgeous trAceHy and flourish of styles,
Courtly grace, chaste refinement, and elegant
air,
Reigned for hours st the St. Giles.
All honor and glory and majesty to it!
Its memory recalls nAught but smilesI
he people all shout in one loud accord:
Long, long live PulAski's st. GilesI
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