The North Carolina Standard

POETRY

FROM THE BOSTON POST.

WHIG POETRY:

The whigs of Norwich, Conn., have lately established a reading room, from which they carefully exclude all democratic publications. The editor of the Norwich Aurora, who is as capital a fellow as ever upset a Whig assertion, either by argument or ridicule, thinks they had better establish a branch of their room for the benefit of the juvenile whigs, who shall be taught what to sing, as well as what to read. The benevolence of his disposition has led him to contribute the following delightful morceau for the use of the proposed conservatory. It is entitled "Ellsworth's Lamentation," and very appropriately goes to the tune of "Captain Kidd." But to the song:

There's Illinois and Maine—they have gone, they have gone,
There's Illinois and Maine—they have gone;
There's Illinois and Maine
Have gone back to truth again;
And from this 'tis very plain,
We are done.

And Maryland, the jade, follows suit, follows suit,
And Maryland, the jade, follows suit,
And Maryland, the jade,
After all the vows she made,
Has the Ragocrats betrayed,
What a brute.

And Pennsylvania, too—what a shame! what a shame!
And Pennsylvania, too—what a shame,
And Pennsylvania, too,
By an instinct ever true,
Has washed out all the blue
From her name.

Oh, I wish I was a geese, all forlorn, all forlorn,
Oh, I wish I was a geese, all forlorn;
Oh, I wish I was a geese,
'Cause they eat their grass in peace,
And accumulate much grease,
Eatin' corn!