Show FROM PROGRESS A SATIRICAL roem POEM BY THE WITTY J G saxe SAME now sawmills saw faw mills grate in every forest nook now spindles bum hum beside each mountain brook s through virgin forests locomotives wall wait and prairie flowers are crushed beneath the rall rail where ocean rolled BO so trackless once and frae tree the agg age of prose stalks forth and maps the seal real fea sea and the swift lightning once cele celestial ethil firc fire doe poes drudgery in harness on a H m ire while white patents fill the air aar bestride tila ilia wave ware and dog us from front the cradle cradie ile lle to the uie grai crait ci machines mae Mac hines hints that rock ryck asleep our infant cry machines that walt wall upon our latest latent sich elch we ive wait wall by ly telegraph our loves young loung dream live ly and tad die by steam spirit earrings prosaic after death deathy our spirits then invent machoney to talk with rapping frem trem the world beyond disclose disc lora losa new depths of dullness and eternal prose xo no more the fairy queen ria rin in cla times of night Is I 1 lulled in flowers with dances clances and dell deil delight gitt glit I 1 no elves by moonlight tread their dusky roundy round and trace green cir clr circles cleson on the dew dropped ground no shooks spooks haunt launt churchyards and no corpse corps e lights burn no goblin checks the butter better in the churn and aud young america laughs lall lis to scorn the good old devil with his lis tati tall and horn poetic follies of a younger anel agel we deal deai dealin a acts more prosy and less sage rage for mirll spirit visits earth to tell till how he and washington are very well and lindley murray from tle the body free rree cant make bis big verbs and nominatives nomi natives agree ben bea franklin raps an idiotic dream dreamy and webster scrawls vile twaddle tw addle addie by the tle rearm reama the splendid knave knaves lord bacon has turned fool and penns great soul Is busy keeping school weil well may the LIVING poet heave leave a sigh to thinly hig big spirit stooping stoop ine lne from frob the sky when he Is dead can rap at call bad rhymes and wretched metre on the wall well may the bero fc hudder in despair whose soul can choose to animate a chair and the ilia great greal statesman sta Eta sinking in the tomb to rise and vi heel a table round a room who knows how soon we too must join these hosts of silly dulla duli dull disreputable ghosts how now soon our friends and relatives must shed some decent tears tear and cut our eur spirit dead j and who will work for tor character or fame tame Is imey iney it bib bis owa own ghost can rufa ruin his bis good name PICTURE or OF congressmen degraded Con gressl once the honored scene of patriot deeds where men of solemn mien la in virtue strong in understanding clear clearl ka earnest rnest tho thol courteous and tho thoy einarc to gravest counsels co lent leni the teeming hours and gave save ave aye their country all their mighty powers but umes time arc are changed a rude degenerate race usurp the seats feats and shame shamo the ibe sacred place here plotting demagogues with zeal defend the people wrighta to gain some seme private end nere here southern boutos on folls Is gurges surges toast their fa fathers theris wisdom eloquently boast so proudly number oler eyen ocer acer the costly jewels that their grandame gran dams wore wort nere here would be pompously parade their turbid troops for empie emple buncom gil til e madey made yuli full ru 1 l on the chair the chilling torrents shower and work wort their word pumps through the allotted hour deluded while with honest praise she notes dotes each grand grind and patriotic phabe audy audi and much rejoicing in her hopeful soni goni deems all her own the laurels he be has won she still dreams how brother members bleds nned fled and left the house bouse as vacant as his hig h cheadl nere here rural cratl chatham eager to attest the 61 growIng greatness of the mighty west 51 to make the plainest proposition clear crack lans lanB head and mr speakers es ear ekr 1 then closing up in one ter terrific rifle shout pour all the wild cots furiously fudi furi louly out nere here lattices boors boora with bullias vies vie who last shall give the rudey ruder rude insulting gile while cc tOr Ordery derf dery order loud louil the chairman ealim and echoing order every member bawlf till rising high in rancorous ran corus debate and higher still in fierce tierce envenomed hate late retorted blows the scene of riot crowns crown and biz bis bl lycurgus I knocks the lesser down do n te to honest dames in frequent proverbs named for por finest fish flah and foulest english famed whose IV lose hose matchless tongues I 1 lis said were never heard to speak a flattering OT 07 a feeble word nere here all your choice invectives ye might urge cree our ow lawless solons fittingly to scon scourge rile tw in yonge tonge nl company might rail till quite quits boim worn outa out your croaking voices fall useless indeed for once compelled to yield in wordy strife strite ye quit the field |