TO AN ANGLE
Non angélus Sed Anglin est.
Sr. Brian Boni, Vol. X, Page LVII.
Ye mystic ooine Ye nymphs devoine Loikewoise slmpraime Apollo î
Melojus raise The * Fraymayx's Praise Whoile oi essay till follow !
Forsayke ye Powers
Yer glettheiJng bowers Me psenn now inspire —
And ye shall view
Me sthrike wid you Ould Oireland's biggist lyre!
Sarkastic Tirab !
In moind or limb, What man wud stand forninst ye ?
The Cuisthre soon
Wud change his chune Nor raise a sthra against ye !
Thy ncetive land Extinds lier hand Acrost the weeves up darting —
* The Morning Freeman, a paper edited and owned by the Hon, T. W. Anglin, M- P., and published in St John N. B»
Till crown wid gowld The hayro bowld Who blessed her by départi n g.
In laify Jime
You bowld gossoon You tuk tbe road till glory $
You turned yer coat
And changed yer note From Libéral to Tory !
Ye rogne 'twas you
The puff that blew That raised the grate Cathaydral,
Its heighth shubloime,
Its walls of loime, Its conduire poly haydraî !
Ye counthree's crade Wud fall indacle Till sornethiug less that Layro,
Were you till sink Or faibly shrink Ye litherary hayro !
In his story of the " Minnehaha Mines,"
our author cleverly hits off the rivers of
Maine and New-Brunswick, and as the
lines may be accounted^ among the best
things he has done in the way of comic
versification, no apology need be made
for their introduction hère. They are
inscribed to : —