Punch (37.1859)

October 1, 1859.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE HAWN IN ITALY.

What of the night o’er Europe soread ?
Is day in Italy begun ?

Has the long, dismal darkness fled ?
Shines, yonder, Freedom’s rising sun ?

It should be daybreak—steady, clear,
Serenely, temperately bright;

And they that in its rays appear
Are true men walking in the light.

Apart from rant; without bombast,

The building of self-rule proceeds;

No braying pomp, with trumpet blast,
Burlesques the grandeur of their deeds.

No mutual kisses, maudlin tears,
Frivolous dance, or mad fool’s cry;

No sickly song offends the ears;

No flaunting tinsel shames the eye.

Or see we there no rosy dawn,

No true Aurora; but a lamp.

Which in a moment may be gone,
Extinguished by a tyrant’s stamp ?

Is, then, immoral force so strong,

, The ^strength of Bight so sad a doubt,

That England must permit the wrong,
Stand by, and see the light put out ?

Brave men, at least our wishes take.

If they are all we can afford;

With foes environed, for your sake,

If we can spare no helping sword,

With spirits of your bards, and shades
Of Romans old, we still survey

Your noble struggle, forced with aids
Reserved, to hold the world at bay.

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nearly equal reason, and to quite as much purpose, boast
that the Lake of Utah, his pontificate, is the Sea of
Saltpetre.

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JONATHAN’S JOHNSON.

The New York Herald, referring to an election contest in Minnesota,
says—

“ So we must look for all sorts of tricks, wirepullings, roorbacks, and intrigues ou
both sides.”

A not bad Yankee notion might be the publication of an American
Annual Dictionary. The Anglo-Saxon tongue is constantly receiving
so many additions from the Transatlantic branch of the family, that
the compilation of such a lexicon has become very desirable. “Roor-
backs,” now!—What are “roorbacks?” one would like to ask the
New York Herald, which, at least, should always come out with a
glossary. Comparative philologists, who derive the words of all lan-
guages from certain primitive roots, may have some difficulty in tracing
the affinity of the American verbal coinage to the Queen’s English;
much more in attempting to make out the relation of Yankeeisms to
any of the other Indo-European languages; a course of investigation
in which the inquirer would be likely to find himself pumphlusticated.

City Treason.

“ If I were to throw the Lord Mayor into a horsepond,” asked
Viscount Williams, “why would he become a railway bridge?”
“ Because,” replied to himself, after a pause, the Venerable Peer,
“ he would be a Wire-ducked.”

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Old martinets are old hoys who are a little too fond of playing witli
the cat. It would serve them right if they now and then got scratched.

A Mellow Drama.—The Green Bushes.

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