The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-08

years, has bscome remarkably facetious in
her rhymings For felicitous, fun-poking
and fun provoking verses, her WELCOME" to
Hayes is probably about the beat thing of
the kind that has appeared in print for a
.coon'sage. As a joke it issimply enormous.
It is colossal 1t is Alpine. Chimborazian;
as for instance, the following to start on
We hall thee, with pleasure aud pride, our
%, head OF our nationi o, son of the West.
Elect OF our people, the free and the brave,
Who acknowledge no master and letter no
slave.
The head of tour nation" is superb, bar
ring the fact that the big M is omitted.
Evidently, somebody ought to put head"
on the nation, If 1t ID only figure head"
The nation needs q head, and maybe it needs
a tail. too, and slight change might have
xed the thing up admirably, as, for in.
stance, husy-
We hail thee, we hail thee, proudly we hail
Thee, Rutherford B., the head and the tail, ETC.
But we do not value 30 highly that part of
Mrs. Bottoms wit as we do that which refers
to Hayes Us The Select Of our people," That
we regard as equal to anything in the
language. 1t is superb. 1t Is fancy the
most sparkling, imagination of far-reaching
wing and certainly, for delicate reference to
fancied facts, can not be excelled; an still,
though we will not believe it was intended
for anything more than pleasantly. there
is lurking cruelty in it-sort'o.like PIN in
q soft velvet cushion. when one would like to
lay back and lsugh-like q peg IN q loot
when one would like to dance Highland
fling. or the twinge of toothache when one
feels like INDUCING in guffaw over Josh.
Billings quaint fancies. Ths gifted poetess
strange to say, does not welcome Hayes as
warrior" though it would have been good
joke-capital; but as statesman and Chris.
tian" and the fun of it is that there il an air of
seriousness about 1t which tightsns the grip
of the expression upon ones disabilities and
makes him smoker in spite OF himself. But
IL the slightest nllusion had been made to
Hayes as . civil service reformer,n tho
effect would have been completely spoiled.
As Lincoln said 1t would have been q "bad
egg" Nothing could bs more adroit than
the sllusion to the wealth of affection"
which Indiana pours out-a sort OF Mag
ara boom. Certainly the gifted lady hit
the mark when she SAID, mo need OF a
temple lnrcrloeu with toy uhmo MOI
bit of 1t; couldn't pile rocks high enough
for such a temples The fame part OF the
oke has been arranged. "For particulars
see small bills" 1t Is exquisitely droll when
Mira. Bolton says, THE heart of thy country
enshrineth thy fame" That Is most deli
cate quip-a by perbolean jeu desprit worthy
of the best masters. But the inspired poet
ess, reveling in the vagaries OF an over
wrought fancy, has set the world TO giggling,
and the ripping circles must go on until
they reach China and Japan After zen
shrinirg'' Hayes "fame'' in the "heart' Of
the country" she proceeds:
But the summit OF greatness is near to the sky
This is something more than . sally; 1t Il
ethereaiized and sublimated raillery. Hayes
80 near the sky would reslizs Dryden's by
perbole when he said
The sky shrupk upward with unusual dread
And trembling rioer dried beneath his bed.
We can see that the famous poetess set on
TO be purely imaginative. cleo she might
bars initiated Goldsmith and said
Consrasted faults through all thy manners
Though itch, psnunous; though submissive
Though grave. yet tr,fiing; zsalous, yet I'M
And cen in psnance planning sins anew.
But Mrs Bolton stuck to her fun provok
ing proclivItiss 70 the last. and, a. humor
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