Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
A poetieal lawyer in our good Quaker City.

Look upon the picture, then on this
A poetical lawyer in our good Quaker City.
Has given the public poem or ditty
In which, with satirical language refined,
With shrewdneSS and cunning to act as abettOrS,
He spreads to his readers a feast of the mind,
BY butler prepared in the kitchen of letters
In fact, on Pegasus lance he has tilted
Against a fair maiden by whom he was Tilted
Miss Clara FitZpOOdle, of Rittenhouse Square,
A lady of fashion who'd nothing to wear.
We know that lawer is famous for tact;
In matters of fancy and matters of fact;
And, therefore, expects that in:making plea,
Where he, both the counsel and client, must be
Defending himself every word he may utter
If questioned would lead to an earnest rebutter
Yes, if the opponent against him arrayed,
UnschoOed in the law, was m0tron or maid,
Though clad i'll an armOr of justice and truth,
Appareled in raiment of merch fOrSOOth
He would say to the judge. to the jury declare,
The woman opposing has nothing to wear.
The story that's told, in the poem or ditty
BY the lawyer and poet of our good Quaker City,
| shall not pretend i'll its fullnesS to tell,
But give yOu the gist, as nut from the shell.
There lived a young lady in RittenhOuse Square,
Miss Clara FitzpOOde-MiSs Clara the fair.
The maiden had pride, and still better by far
4 rich, an indulgent, doating papa.
4 man who in youth on a fortune was bent.
And lOned out his cash at a hundred per cent.
Until the financial success in his sharingS,
Made the aggregate sum OF his earnings and shay
A round half a million, and then he retired
For his wealth and beautiful daughter, admired;
| Smiled on by women and fattered by men.
| He headed the list of the proud upper ten"
| Now clara, his daughter, was handsome and gay
! And some one had dropped in her hearing one
| day
! The simple remark from unguarded tongue,
| In the fOrcible language of Go it while young"
| Now Clara was young and her father was old
| She was heir to his Golfers of silver and gold
| And she also had heard-twaS pity, alack-
| That money, got over the Evil Ones back
| Would 90 under hlS-no matter when itwOuld go
| 'Tis proverb familiar, that all Of us know.
| So the maiden determined herselfshe would bless,
By being the leader of fashion and dress;
AID (to post herself up with her friend Mrs Oar
riS,
She took sundry trips to the city of Paris.
| In her regal regalia, wheneer she was seen.
None took her for less than an empress or queen.
Whatever she saw, if twas marked q Ia mOde,
! Was purchased, no matter what price she bestOw-
ed;
| If dress, or Il coat or a bonnet in style
The latest" were words that were sure to beGuie;
| And gazing she purchased, and buying did gaze
| Determined that nothing to please or amaze
| should be left in the city Of Paris, while She
! Could draw on the banker. her father, and he
| Would honor the drafts Of his daughter, the fair
Miss Clara Fitzpoode of RittenhOuSe Square.
! At last With hopes in a state of fruitOn
She bade dU TcTOir to her friends, the PaTiSianS,
And taking II SiCamer-I think twas the Ohio
Brought home her effects as the bulk of the car
go"
(TO be continued
And the author would respectfully ask his read
erS to retain the papers containing this poem
and also to bear in mind that
GARITEE, MASTEN & ALLEN
continue to keep their usual large stock of mag
nifcent clothing for Mems Boys and Childreni
wear at
TOWER HALL, may AL,
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