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at Guy's:
"To horse, to horse," our hero drunk exclaims,

"I'll crush rebellion--give the town to flames."
The faithful groom the

pawing steed attends,
The maudlin Cyclops all oblique ascends;
But
ere the lambent flames consume the town,
The Cid unhorsed, like
Bacchus, topples down.
Old Juno's goose erst saved imperial Rome,

But Rebel whisky saves the Rebels' home.
Next comes the dismal
order--'tis from Scott--
[Illustration: "Fraternal discord cease." _Page 27._]
"Leave Baltimore." He blew a warlike trump,
And marched to
conquest--conquest of a pump!
Like Falstaff, seeks repose and
dreams of glory,
While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story;

Leaves gallant Winthrop to his mournful fate,
But takes the field
when haply 'tis too late.
Wrath gnaws his bowels, and with words
profane,
He swore an oath, as once the Queen of Spain
Vowed the
same garment _malgrè_ wear and tear,
Till Ostend fell she would
forever wear.
Our hero vowed Magruder's works to take,
Whereof
the books no mention deign to make;
For well we know the batt'ries
poured their thunder,
While wise Sir Spoons sought easier paths to
plunder.
But _Io Bacche_! Victory comes at last--
Our doughty
chief in New Orleans is cast;
[Illustration: ""I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites!"
Oh, glorious thought! but ere the fort
ignites,
Our Cyclop's sailed away infirm of
will,
And saucy Fisher flashed defiance
still." _Page_ 25.]
The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed,
And Farragut our
Cyclop's fortune made.
Where are the trophies of our Yankee brave?

The lecherous order, and poor Mumford's grave;
Ship Island's
tortures, Mrs. Phillips' cell,
For mercy's reign the cruelty of hell;
A
Shylock brother--a Prætorian band--
A starving city and a plundered
land:
These are his triumphs--Fisher was his shame,--
Oh! triumph
worse than is the coward's name.
"I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the

region kites!"
Oh, glorious thought! but ere the fort ignites,
Our
Cyclop's sailed away infirm of will,
And saucy Fisher flash'd defiance
still.
"Far better I were _hermetically_ seal'd,
Than homeward
borne upon a bloody shield."
[Illustration: "But hold, enough; no further we'll pursue
The modern Haynau. "Bottled" Chief, adieu." _Page_ 27.]
"Fort Fisher be my epitaph!" 'Tis meet,
For long ago it gave thy
winding sheet.
But hold, enough; no further we'll pursue
The
modern Haynau. "Bottled" Chief, adieu.
Haply my country's freedom
still remains,
And with the night have passed oppression's chains:

Oh, may the storms which settle o'er our land
Be gently lifted by th'
all-saving Hand;
The dove return; fraternal discord cease,
And
millions join the Jubilee of Peace!

FOOTNOTES
[1] He entered College in his sixteenth year as a future candidate for the
ministry. As he was without resources, he was compelled to do manual
work to meet the expenses incurred at the Institution. The fact is
creditable.
[2] Many instances are related of his insubordination at school and
disputes with superiors. One of the preachers having advanced the
opinion that only one in every hundred Christians would, perhaps, be
saved, our hero drew up a theological petition asking leave to vacate his
seat in church, very candidly regarding himself as among the number
that would be lost. A public reprimand for his smart irreverence was the
only answer vouchsafed the unfledged Doctor.
[3] _Monstrum et horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum._
Virg. Æneid. lib. iii.
[4] The people of a captured city were subjected to fines and levies and

open plunder, and in some instances imprisoned at hard labor with ball
and chain.
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