THAT AMATUR ELUTE.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 57, 12 August 1875, Page 7

THAT AMATUR ELUTE.

.The company all were seated, and tlie laugh and jest went round — lighthearted revellers unconcious of their doom. The executioner entered. He had fa lii*'hfa&d*a(iil^ivflute. A malignant smily lighted .up his features. "Ha ! ha !" he said, 1 ' with a fiendish glee, "I will administer unto them an adagio ; not a man shall escape.*' Now therefore this, accompanied with many, apologies, to the honored shade Of Edtra Allen Poe:— Hear the flnter with his fluteSilver flute, O what a word of wailiug is awakened by its toot! How it deini-somi quavers On the niaddeued air o£ night ; And defieth all endeavors To escape the sound or sight Of the flute, flute, flute, With its tootle, tootle, toot — With reiterated tooinga of exasperating toots, -The iong-prptracted tootelings of agonizing toota ■•'- Ofthrflute, flute, flutey flute.. . Flute, flute, flute, And the wheering* and the spittings of its toot. Should he get that other fluteGolden flute— With what a deep anguish will its presence Uv stitoot ! How his eyes to Heaven he'll raise, As he plays, all the days, - flow the will atop ua on our ways With its praise ? And the people, oh, the people, That dou F t live up in the steeple, But inhabit Christian parlors Wh*W ihe visiteth and plays — Where he plays, plays, piaya— In the cruellest of ways, A ad thinks we ought to listen, Aud expects us to be mute, Who would rather have the earache " Tlianth* music of. his flute— i . Of his flute, flute, flute— >; And thetooings of its toot— Of the toos wherewith he tootelleth its agonizing toot, Of the flute, flewt, flnit, fioot. Phlute, phlewt, phlewght, And the tootle tootle tootlee tooing'of its toot.