Select Poetry.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1154, 20 May 1870, Page 4

Select Poetry.

MY'EE-LEOW CRE^TUIiES.

>SX OftABISES MATTHEWS,

I've liyed sixty-six- yeafcs ; " in this valley of tears, ■• ' , . : „ Audtseeji all.§orts "of- men,- that's a fact ! A..nditV.a made Wß,my,vaijid ... „ . -Ado'iidortotnaii kkidj - ■ - That «BVfi^altof as moreior.less.oracKea .— It's ail -yery,fll\e . ►■ •.'"' *.<"■ ■ For your |)otflpous diviner TfiTgiTO-buEfrorii-'hi"* frlilpit of oak,-' . That ,we'rq all " fellow creatures •" ''Like jninds and liko features;?' O, lawfcl' I call that a, good joke. •3?dr3n what we resemble, — • japW.Kcan was like Kemble, Orßyron was like Dr. "Watts, ! In6^er u 6'6iild coiiceive; : ■" *No,' riorclo -I .believe That teefcp'allers;ian be. like sots. Ohly take for comparison 'VoUaireratid Harrison, • . - ■ . Hannibal, Swift, and Flfczball ; "An'd'then say, if y m dare, «sri what way they compare, . "Wh.en.th'ey wou't boar comparing at all. . ,Whj\. there's not b en a uiau }Siiice t>he/tforld first began, • ■ ■ ■ • ■ "Who resembled ano 1 her in fact.; .And, as far as I see, . t TiVey i" .frothing .agree, .'. .. .. , Exeep't-thaji they're more or leas crackea. Juliu* Cfflsar, «"'7BVH6/ 'twixt you and' me,; sir,. Was not a bad clia'p Jit alfjjsht 5 • Now iust ••ay^if you can, 'In what way such a man ' „ Qa-rrbo-saiil %o resemble John Bright ? . Each" is cracked iii his way, ■ ■ And 't ain't easy to say If the one or the other be right ; . ißat itwwM.be a teaser ...... 'To aAy Julius Cas<ar, ! • ' Was jiist such a. man as" .Tolin-Bngnt. . .■ There was Cardinal Wolsey, -■ ; . "Whb Jived dbwii at Mo'iilsey, , Washejiwith his olericat mug, >tike Unck^sKeppard -the sinner, „ : Who hung out at 'Pinner, And,Hvedinajolly "stone jug"? "WbuldyWventure tostato i ' * . , That pM Frederick the Great Was Pierce Esau himself to a dot ? Or that " Lion-kins; Carter" Was like \' CJiarles 1 he Martyr," Judge Nicbolson .like, Walter Scott ! *You.may : arßue fo "ever, matter-how clever, r• " ' : You cannot establish as. fact, , . , That" an eagle's a uiouse, Or'a pill-bok a house, ; • ' " :" Yotfll\ j>rove nothing but this— that you re. "-- cracked. ...•'"■.• i Sr6w'tak& "any two jrabies, . ' > A'ndstart them as babies, . And giv» them 1 ho same cup of pap ; And bring both up in Surrey, Teach both Lindley Murray, And buy them the same leather cap. Dress up both' little boys In the hamerco.urderoys, ----.:. And whip both wvth'tlhe very same rod : You'll find all of no ustv ■: O c will vurn outja goose— Qiih a scholar, and t'other a clod. * Teach 'em " two tens are twenty," . And "As m presenti," And put. down " Quoe genus " before em : Oiie qu'ckly 'will holloa, . " . ' ' " M.irs, : Bacchus, Appolo!". . - • Er«* t'other can get out " yirorum." " You'may work -.like a nigger, ■■ But when they get bigger '- They'll grow more uiiliko ev'ry.day j _ Thou.h.thi-y've felt the same birch, Oiin wifl' take to the church. T'other -pay lim half-price to the play. -'.One will id»lise Homer, , • • . And t'other Bob Roiner : And when they are free from the school, > One. will live up, in attics And love mathematics, , T'othef.dbjit on T?rt'd Hobson and Toole. One man's born ferocious, .Another preepcious; • One lamb-like, another defiant ; ' One's born Yor a writer, .•; And one for a fighter— One's.a pigmy, anJ t'other a giant. yWe all have our breeds, ; And our various' seeds, ■ i .« Juet like animals, fishes, and flowers ; - ' You can't make a d g ' * From a-sheep or a ho?; ■ • '• They've their classesdistinct, and we ye ours. • I Who'd compare a bear's hug . 'To the bite' of a 1 pug P Who'd.have.fclc the least pity for.Daniel, > If.'iiteadof a. cage ' With wild beasts to engage, He'd beeivput in a den with a spaniel ? You might. ju§t as well try To. make el.phants fly, Or convert' pickled pork into vemson, As compel, a born c > ward . To fight; liku a Howard— A be'adlri to. rhyme like a Tennyson. = = All our different races r JJiiye stamped on their faces . The.marks that distinguish them— rather ! You may tellthe bur glutton 1 ""' ' "JW*-Mi"toVSj-oarage-yi'Mf^ta l i. J au u>v.t BgSHtSR ■» \ W,hy, just look ac the Yankees ! I'd not give two thankye's For all the fine things that they teach. About men being " equal "— ' They've found in the sequel They, can't' carry out' what they preach. --, While the Korth stuck to figures, Somh' larrip't its n ggcrs, And each called its mission divine ; -. Till the. wrong and the right - Had a j..11y Rood light, All to tr . and cha-.ge Nature's design. . After lots of hard thwacks, The Whites found that the Blacks Were considered as -equal by no man; A black w.ioliy pat 6, . Oau't compete with hair straight— A snub v 'S ■ can't compete with a Roman. Both Sambo's detractors i : And best benefactors, Wlso elory iv settinir free, "While they crown him with roses : Will still hold their noses, And shrink from the same cup of tea ( ; Since to prove black is white -Is as difficult quii c As tp prow London Bridge is at Brighton, The notion dismiss; . . ' " Arid defend' upon this— That a Black mau.is not like a White un. . Now I'l J tell you wh*t dor- • - Take a boot 'arid a shoe, They are articles ev'iyoiie wears, .-And compare them togeth.-r, Though both, made of 'leather, : A cobbler will say they're not pairs : -'••So, though-all made of clay; " •. ■We're. -not shaped the same way, . A IT'SpW' 8 . T i^' d . in various gradations ; At thtt timh of our birth . "- Were all^eut.upou earth Readymade for om- sundry vocations. We all were " created ''— • ■ -•That's. true, as it's stated— 3ut were not. created for "fellows-" . One's destined to play ' Oii the organ all day,' ' ■ ined - t0 ' sl ! sfc blow tho bellows, ...Were it otherwise, why - Shouldn't go:.d Mrs. Fry -■ Have been rival 10 Jon ttlian Wild ? -,'Ori7 Humanity, Howard" Been whippeii, the c^ld coward ! Fbr grossly lflallreaMiig a c ild ? Twist us which way you will, Nature will come out still ; Ytnk may fight h.-r decrees till iyou're sick— . Nature wearafJGdtnuudKeau • . • olipuld ijiutmne. the i scene— • • mJ? Ve M always was meant for a " stiok " ■ Thus wall ey'ry man find£v:lli» .position . assigned j He's to conquer the worll, or sell Tigs • •*e hief-.vurland or Titian, * - He 1 works out his mission— Paints portraits, or only- paints pigs. One "ran s" born to be Inn uy ': And ld « r h j s money. Another's creat-'dtoJend it; ' ■ The greater the t>i?. r e, Why the greater his ,?tore— It's the plea-amest fellows who spend it. It'ti some consolation '■ ■ 'So know coiupensatiort . Is equally granted to* all'; -What by some men is' wanted, To others is granted — Brown's too short/ and Thompson's too tall. There's Commodore Itoso With the gout in hie toes, Eats his three meals a pay, and is ill ; "While .the poor starving' peasant,' Who knocks down a pheasant, ' In bis life. m ver swallowed, ft pUI. - Theij let's.all bu cpnte'iiD . ~* Just to follow" our' bent, And not bother.our heads about others; .LetiMaturo alone. . Envy 116' man his own,' And jog on altogether like brothers. Now, to sum up the whole ... .... Of this loiig rigmarole," ' It is wise to. give each man Ms station ' It's really absurd -To : treat 'all as one Herd, ■ ' ; And drive all by t.he same education. ; Try and buuiour the bent "' With'whieb each men is sent, ' Duly stamped at!. th« hour of hw birth • - r ;A>^ a ? !> i^ I'the1 ' the poor creature * To beC'v^r his nature,' ' " : And ; act w'eil' his part upon eiarth. «->rlf .Tom^Hood.hajl.been pnfc , , -,In;a regiment of foot; He would never have let off a gun. j '"For in spite'of hard drilling o-sV-d b'gtyqu a shilling , . . * He'd only have let off a pun. ri 'Doybutbwk ; that-M.oliere- ■ i-'iWhon hepolishe.dacSiair, r . . And worked hard as a pillow and bolsterer, "'Didii'tsickcntodoit? : li,»Twas r bosh— andhe.knewit— s«- : . I iSfin couldn't.make Tiim au upholsterer. . . ' .Then don't say were all made "• : Of'onVihoul!l and one grade, :. . --.■■. •AttdailequairrallQWrne to doubt it. .-.#• -. f-.We'xe bo^u, wide. apart * :, ' " . - „ 'Both in head andhi heart'; 1 • :;- '€t'& the truth, so-^that's all about it, t '.;-.-. - -'iii'-'.'''; !■: 'iTiT ">■ 'ijfc.; ' ' — .' ..*;..