Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-16
DuyER, DELATARE.
From George Alfred Townsend's Poems oil
Men and Events"


OF some lady delicate,
Stands the Delawarean state.
Counties three arc all her own,
Rising like u triple stone;
Down her profile like her hair
Showers the golden Delaware.
In her lids, retiring shy,
Brown Newcastle is her eyei
lii the oceans ever thrust
Rosy Lewes tips her bust.
In her throat's slim interval
Dover is her capital,
Like modest brooch within
Velvet recess of her chin.
From its agate to the bay
Ribbons soft creek away,
Through the lotos lily ponds
And the marshes diamonds.
Humid in the groves ii stands,
Like some town in Netherlands,
Rising steepled Ger the fen,
A mirage of Hindlopen,
As within thclocket's lid
Him the lady loved is hid,
Delaware, her face demure,
Shows in Doyer's miniature:
Edmond Andross wigged SO grand.
Francis Lovelace granting land,
Royal York and William Penn
And the Calvert gentlemen.
While the Dutchman trapped for furs,
Here were giehe and worshippers,
Whilst the separate stnte began
In the fresh years OF Queen Anne.
And the sheriff set mis- stocks
In st. Jones's splatterdocks;
When its rent il would not pay
The Assembly drove away.
In his marshes wrote with grace,
BY his coruered fire place,
Dickinson, with eagle wing,
Farmers Letters for the King.
Here the bell, like falchion keen.
Rang the soldiers to the green.
Who, erewhile, to court had come
AT the beating of the drum.
Like trumpet of his Lords
Guarded by the gentry's swords.
Preached the schoolhonse steps upon
Tory" Freeborn Garreitson.
Balratt's chanel was the lists
Where old Wesiey's Methudists
Bishops did themselves create
In new Episcopate,
Whatcoat's grave is in the town.
BasSett, convert of renown,
(Landc.; statesman in the strife,)
Baysrl gave his childto vile.
Found by Presbyterian kinks
Are tine heroes and their works.
With the Irish and the Scot
And their kindred Huguenot.
"a
Jones, McDonouEh fought their ships
With the country hearted air
Breathed in sylvan Delaware.
Like the gamecock first to crow.
Wnile Imperial states were slow,
Delaware her blessing sent
To Federal government.
Count de Segur bringing gold.
peeped on Bowers sleep. and told;
Marshal Grouchy cunning through,
Shot more than at Waterloo.
Through our borders making tours,
Here came du Pont de Semours,
With his sons Lavoisier taught
10 make powder fun Of thought
Straight as it were almost new,
The cool house of Quaker Chew
Echoes more than wars renown
Round his hall at Germaniowni
Not his daughters, ROYAL fine,
Not his old Madeira wine,
But all tilial wars sureease.
ClaytoE's, Bulwer's solemn peace;
Clayton 10 young Fisher there
Told the lore OF Delaware:
l.oeal-heariei was his breast
AS the tishhawk 10 its nest,
Bayards four. to Senates sent.
From the rented State house went:
| Cross the square, unspeaking. three
| Rival brothers salisbury
Who shall know a magazine
C.ept to print on Dover green2
or that SmitherS, lawyer prim.
Here composed in Latin hymng
Or that juris, Ridgelys sank
Sterling talents in bank.
And, her Blue Hens chickens canns
Dover gave the world her brand.
Surgery its native realms
Founded under Dover elns.
And It's green retreats within
Letters save 10 medicine.
Delawares tranquil increase
Comes from times OF Priuce Maurit
Fragment OF theis snNi's concern
Groiius aud 0xenstiern.
Down her creek ports from the way
Glide her sloops where cattle Craze
Ever fatteping, never gone,
On Van Rembrandt'S river lawn.
. Jurisprudence of its courts
Dignitiei by its reports,
BY lis Senators sustained
The equality II gained.
Not the fractions rights of states
Riots in her water gates;
|. kiriled in her slender zone
: Daughter OF our Union.
$ Ancient biendings in her type q.
i Give her beauty rare and rips,
l. All of EuropeiS races born
a In the orient of her Morn.
o Wanton cities spoil her not;
y like her peach and apricot
d She within her lutte tree
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