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j&'rdn the Knight of Jericho.
OF JERICHO.
Y R. A. GAINES.
The sky of fate whs once as dark
As midnight’s empty air;
But, lo ! amid that gloi fxn* a spark
Os Hope outshone despair,
And rolling bacjj; those sable clouds,
A star was. seep to glow
Like life revivedflittburial shrouds;
’Twas the Knight of Jericho!
Look up! fhou poor, forsaken wife!
There’s happier days to come;
There’s something yet to bless .thy life,
And tronquilize thy home.
That pois’nnus bane that mado thee mourn
No longer now shall flow—
Thy love and ones cheeks no longer burn :
He’s a Knight of Jericho!
The child that trembled ouce to see
His drunken father come.
Now sits upon his father’s knee,
WJuying a peaceful hottie.
The drunkard that was clothed in rags.
Hut just twelve months ago.
Is heard in loud triumphant brags :
I’m a Kuight of Jericho !
No mark of rank shall point to us
The rich man or the poor :
We all are first, jet none are first—
We meet upon one floor.
The male, the female, both engage
To banish the dreadful foe,
And freindship is our compassed guace:
• Wo Knights of Jericho !
Calhoun, Georgia.
THE DRUNKARD’S CHILD.
In the crowded street I met her,
as twilight veiled the sky,
Never, never to forget her,
And the tear drops in her eye^
Fair as the Summer’s fairest blossom
Played the curls upou her brow, *
While beneath them heaved a bosom
Whose deep anguish thrills me n<w,
‘‘harbor, Father!” speaks she mildly,
“Mother prayed you would not stay !**
“Father, Father!” cried she wildly,
“Come, oh, come with me away.”
“Hush thy tongue! * th£ father uttered—
For the dram shop door was nigh—
And her heart with terror fluitered.
As he bade her homeward fly.
Sad, and faint, and broken-hearted.
Turned that little child away
To the home from whence she started—
Where lrr starving mother lay.
All that night, with grief and sorrow.
Watch’d’ they, prayed they—hope in vain!
Till the daylight of the morrow
Jii|oUght the drunkard home again.
SoreHtdd cross, the wretch beheld them,
Wanting e’en a crust to eat;
Like twoWbasts, the fiend expelled them
From the hovel to the street!
Bitter, bitter days thf y bore it—
Grief the world may never know—
Till the bier, with sable o’er it,
Eased their burden here below.
S.ide by side two are sleeping.
Faded stalk add withered rose;
’Neath the-silent willow weeping
CHer the grave of many woes.
Oh, my Go i! is this a story—
Or a sight for every day J
This a part of human glory J
Let the tongue of ages say.
What of courts, and what of battles,
What of deeds beyond the wave,
When around our hearth-side rattles
All this pageant of the grave ?
Dim the eyes and cold the embers,
Pale the cheeks and dark the sky,
And what joy the sodl remembers,
Give to grief a darker eye.
Here’s the spot to pause and listen,
Here’s the woe to meet and heel;
Whatsoever watch stars glisten,
Here, O warrior, lift your steel.
’ ——o ■ O-o- — i’.
From Scott s Weekly Paper— Philadelphia.
THE GARDEN GATE.
The day was closed, the moon shone bright,
The village clock struck eight,
When Sylvia hastened with delight,
, To ope ihe garden-gate;
But sure, as if to drive her mad,
-Tbeßate wa * there but not the lad.
Which made grieving cry,
Was ever maid so used as I ? “*
• .• 4
She paced the garden here and there,
.r * village clock struck niue,
When Sylvia cried, in wild despair,
Last night he vowed ihe garden-gate
Shoulti find him here, this eve, at eight ;
Kttt this I’ll let the creature see
He ne er shall make a fool of me.
®* l ®, cen9 . e i d ~' a noise her ear alarms,
The village clock. struck ten,
When William caught her iu his arms,
And ne’er to part again.
He showed the ring, to wed next day,
He’d been to buy. a long, loug ivay ;
Hpw, then, could Sylvia cruel prove,’
To oue that did so truly love !
A slanderer of the lair sex undertakes
to prove that Satan was a woman named
•Lucy Fir.
The Squire’s Storv ‘Oh !’ says
the Squire, ‘1 wish I was married and
well on’f —l dread it powerfully. I’d
like lo marry a widow: I alleys like
widders since I knowed one down in
Georgia that suited my ideas adzactly.
‘About a week after her husband
died, she started down to the grave-*
yard where they’d buried him, as she
said, to read the prescription on ms
monument. When she got there, she
stood ffPfninute a lookin’ at the stones
which w|£4c.ut at each endyd the grave
with an epithet on ‘em that the minis
ter ha?f writ for her, ‘Oh! boo-*hoo/
says she, Kfone*—he was of the best ojf
men: I remember how the last time
he came home, about a week ago, he
brought down from town some sugar,
and a little tea, and some store goods
for me, and lots of little necessaries,
ar*d a little painted boss for Jim, whjch
that child got his mouth all yalla* w ith
suekin it and then he kissed the child
ren all round, and took down that good
old fiddle of his’n and played up that
good old tune
“ Rake her down Sai. oh rang, danki toddle,
O rang dang diddle, dang dang da*ff|£*
‘Here/ said the Squire, she began
fKi dance, and I jest she was
the greatest woman I ever seed-’
The Squire always gives a short
laugh after telling this anecdote, and
filling and lighting his plie. subsides
into an arm chair in frdiHi of the,Ex**
change, and indulges in calm’ and
dreamy reflections. I
. officers Ape nos tllkprou*
dest men in the we kl#ays“tie
lieved, and the following a'fftcdoteggoes
far to prove thotjtheir humility isocSl
sionally well imitated in its perceptive
sense. / ■/
‘Cuff/ snid one of the dignifafies to
a negro at his side, as he prepared, to
swallow his fifth invoice of ’hadwar!
Cuff,you‘re a good honest fellow,
and 1 like to compliment a man whatV
lied on honest life if he is black, you
shall take o’somthin with me, eh ?’
Well captain/ replied Cuff, wiping
his moXtth with the nether end of his
shining coat sleeve, T’se berry dry so
1 won’t be ugly/’bout it . Some nig -
gers is too proud to drink with milishy
ossifers—but I think a milishy ossifer,
when sober, is just as good as a nigger,
especially if the nigger is dry ?’
Tiie Celestial State. —Old Rick
ets was a man of labor, and had little
or no time to devote to speculations as
to the future. He was withal, rather
uncouth in the use of language.
One day while engaged in stopping
up hog holes about his place, he was
approached by a colporteur, and pre
sented a tract.
•What’s all this about?’ demanded
Rickets.
•That, sir, is a book describing the
celestial state,’ was the reply.
‘Celestial State,’said Rickets,‘where
the deuce, is that ?’
‘My worthy friend, I lear that you
have not’—.
‘Well, never mind,’ interrupted Rick
ets,’ I don’t wan't to hear about any
better State than old Pennsylvania. I
intend to live and die right here if I
can only keep them darned hogs out.’
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ing a prisoner convicted of murder—
‘You are to be hanged and I hope ’twill
be a warning to you.’
Dobbs is a strong believer in, ‘guar
dian angels.* If it was not for them, be
asks what would keep people from roll
ing out of bed when they are asleep.
Tom,’ said a girl to her sweetheart,
•you have paid yer distresses to me long
enough ; it’s time you were m iking
known your contentions, so as not to
keep mein expense any longer/
•Mother sent me,’ said a little girl to
a neighbor, ‘to ask you to come and
take tea with her this evening/ Did
she say at What time, my dear ?, No
ma’am she said she would ask you,
and then the thing would be off her
mind; and that was all she said.’
A gentleman asked a little boy in
London, ‘what occupation does your
father pursue for a living?’ He ans
swered with great simplicity, ‘He is a
dreadful accident maker, sir, for the
newspapers!’
*My son,’ said an affectionate moth
er to her son, (who resided at a dis
tance, and intended in a short time to
get married,) ‘you are very thin.’—
•Yes, mother,* he replied, ‘I am : and
when you see me next, I think you
may see my rib .’
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