National Republican., 1885-11-28


Let me feel your velvet face
Breast to breast and heart to heart
Nevermore to pine or part.
The idea seems to be well covered In
this instance. No further comment Is nee
essary.
Here is the first verse of the poem on the
death Of Sir Moses Montelore:
hundred years of glorious life
Have crowned our royal hero,
The best of all in Hebrew strife,
Sir Moses Montefiore
If Sir Moses had known of the above he
would no doubt have waited until the
colonel's "Peculiar Pocmsn were in print
before he would have died. The colonel
makes Sir Moses's last name rhyme with
''hero." This seems undue liberty It may
be poetic license. II 1t is then 1t is greater
license than has been extended to any poet
can be made very useful in d. Appleton's
encyclopedia to show the proper pronucia-
tion Of Sir Moses's name.
On another page we find "The Days Are
Growing Shorter" This isquite interesting
and valuable weather statistics Gen. Hazen
will probably hire Col. Joyce as q poetic
weather prophet.
On another page we find the poem Glove
and Laughter" dedicated to George d.
Prentice. This is too well known to need
more than passing notice. The philosophy
and the sense of the whole poem is con-
tanned In these two lines
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone.
This is the poem about which the sad-eyed
Wilcox and the brave colonel foughta news
paper duel some time since. The colonel
came out ahead without any blot on his
escutcheon. The wild western poetess was
overcome, but not subdued. The colonel
gained the day by making pun on the word
rejoice, dropping. off the first two letters Of
the word and changing 'f' into a ''y."
And additional fact in his favor was the
years than that of the fair Wheeler, and as
the poem is conceded to be very old, 1t were
almost impossible tout of Difference to Miss
Wilcox's seX) that she could have written
It,. There are few people, by the way,
who conjecture that the poem was written
even before the bold colonel's time.
By order of President Cleveland copies Of
this poem Will be sent with all requests for
designations of offensive partisans.
The colonel seems to have enjoyed high
life at Coney Island, for it concludes:
Thus forever and forever
Shall the roaring ocean Screech
And the heart of man and woman
VIII be flirting on the beach!
"Lot's drink tonight" is of conyivial
nature. "Just son is just $3.50, perhaps
more so, but not quite so.
The author gives few lines to the "yum-
yum and kissy-kiss-kiss business" He ad-
yises us to "kiss while you CAM" also tells
us about "the first kiss,n and also about
'kissing o'er the bars"
"The Bridgo,n by Longfellow, alias Col.
Joyce, is pathetically as follows:
stood on the bridge at midnight
AS the planks were rotting away,
And the light shone DER the city
Asthe toll bridge went to decay.
From the few cuttings We have made
from the "Bunch of Rosesn of human ma
ture IN "Peculiar Poemsn some idea of its
'rolllckingn lines can be seen. These lines,
as the author says, are for the "boys" and
''girlsh who appreciate fun. But there are
other poems where simplicity heart, and
love are commingled, which cannot fail to
bring the rich warm blush OF affection 10 tho
cheek; perhaps the reader may shed tear.
There arc Others, whose soul-stirrlng
words, like the fife and drum, make martial
music to ennobling sentiments.
We know Of no more pleasant companion
to while away hour or two than "Pccullar
Poems" Placed in the family library II can
be consulted for sympathy, friendship,
humor, and advice, and will not be found
wanting.
They are Characteristic of Col. Joyce,
written in a dashIng, off-hand style,
which cannot fail to stamp him with
originality. The poem "Lovo and Laugh
ter" is unquestionably Mr.. Joyce's, us no
one who has not experienced touch of tho
bitter In life could have written IT, We are
inclined to the opinion that the poem upon
Gen. Grant" is by far the most touching.
We give it In full;
MUSTERED OUT.
HalEmast the flag, q heart brave and stout
SurTenders at last-Grant's mustered out.
Toll the bell slowly, molsten his sod,
Peace to his ashes glory to God.
Battle and trial shall never again
Harm the hero In sunshine or rain,
He's gone to a land devoid of all doubt,
All his service is over, Grants mustered out.
His fame like light shall shine through the
years
Hallowed by memory and watered by tears.s
Flnes that he carried shall long Hap and ilOu
His record OF glory we can't muster out.
Donelson, Shiloh, the Wilderness too 73
| Milestones immortal with deeds OF the blue. -
And this is the man that never knew rout
| TIL fate told the world that Grants mustered