The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-03-14
CHATS AND SKETCH Els
About Town and Elsewhere.

Jack and jill
Amplifed And Done Into Heroic Verse
AS it Ought To Be.
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
Jack fell down
MOTHER GoosB's MELODIES.
When black'ning clouds the skies above
deform,
When on his donkey rides abroad the
STORM
When thunder-peals the coming rain de-
note,
Compelling man to button up his coat,
Oh then, my FUsBosl then indeed there
CLOVIS
Red fiery lightning rosy as thy nosel
Then thunder crashes thro' the azure way,
And in the skies there is the ID to payl
IT'S then umbrellas are by men adored;
Then cloaks are brot from where they long
were stored,
And sad pedestrians seeking shelter, get
In divers places to avoid the wet;
Yea, to avoid the wet seek divers places,
Wherein they meet their fate with dtOers
facesl
Such was the time, when JOHN, with pail in
hand,
tJoHN, known as Jack" none Drawer in
the land),
With JILL, his dearest, rarest, falrest JILL,
To get some water clsmbered up the hill.
Than he, on earth few Drawer ever were;
Than she, all bards allow, was none more
fair;
LIT. -. L. ae, roI
Or cause the angels sorrowing looks to wearl
Or hang themselves on hooks in dark des-
pairl
Up went the two the water to obtain;
Up went the two, and downward came the
rain.
From the tall height came rolling down the
flood,
The dust converting into slippery mud,
Dragging the dress OF sweetly smiling JILL,
AS strove she, hardly, to ascend the hill,
And scattering mud the trouser-legs upon
or her bold cavalier, the daring JOHN
(Known more as "JAcK')--but still they
struggled on.
At last-ah luckless moment JACK fell
down,
The flinty rock he struck and cracked his
crownl
Forth from his fingers few the empty pail;
Up rose in air JILL's sympathetic wall;
And as her JACK" or JOHN, or whatsoever
You choose to call him, thro' the azure air
Described a portion of a background,
JILL tumbled after to the miry groundl
Oh for forty-Shskspeare power to tell
JILL's woful agony when JACK he fell
Right sore she wept, as in the mud she lay
Not noting, or not needing, the display
OF feet and ankles to the passers-by,
Who made no stop to ask the reason why,
But, soon as they the luckless pair espied,
PASSED by" IMPLYING, ION the other side,"
Like "priest and Levite," who, as we have
read,
Passed by the traveller "wounded and half
dead,"-
(Here let US pause the reason to inquire;
1t makes me weary,-it provokes my ire,-
Not to perceive the cause of such a slight.
Twas not their hurry, and it was not
fright
The thieves were gone; why, then, did both
"pass by"
When they the wounded traveller did espy?
This reason once was given, 80 I've heard;
1t may be wrought surely seems absurd
A child in Sunday school, when asked the
question
Why they passed by, replied with this sug-
geston,
In timid accents, and with voice unsteady,
"Because-because-t man ,0aS robbed al
reddyyO
But to return.-We left the lovers lying
On the damp ground, and one of them was
crying
AS if her heart would break. What caused
her tears?
Twas not her own mishap. Her cavalier
Dear head was wounded, it is true, but that
Was not tn affliction she was weeping at.
1t was (ah meD it was the dreadful fact
That the pails bottom, too, was sadly
crackedl
Twas this, alas! that broke her tender
heart