Poets Corner.
A Yankee Serenade.—An American contemporary bus procured, through his "own «porlrr," a copy of i song King by a love-sick swain, «ccompan>iwg him<elt o» a fiddle, under his mistress's bedroom window. It i« as follows : Yake, Udy, vake ! the m >od are h'gu The twinklin' stars be beamin', Vhile, now and then, acro<« the sky A nu-te-or are Bti«*min'! Vi«ke, lovely vod ! The iky are a Refreshing i* the bretzs • It blow* my no«e vhile I »it here A riddling'uealb thelreeses! Vake, Sally, dear! The bull-frogVnote Are beard in.youder rushes! And the v»ibliug tree-toad swells his threat. Sing)a' in the-in '«ie bushes. Take, Wenus mine ! 'I he vipporvil Sings en I hut rail-fence yonder, Vhile the owl pipe t forth his hootin' shrill—(Vy dou't she vake, I yonder ?) Softly on the grassy ha. The moon her beams are ponrin'; The stars look down and viuk at rue (Bygum! if Sal ain't snorin'.) Take, Sally, vake ! and look on me, A vake ; Squire Ctfrtis' daughter j If I'll have you, and you'll have me—(l3y George ! who threw that water ?) *% Ob! crnel Sally, thus to slight—f Here comfcs the bull-d"g now!J "Bowwow." "Oh! owl tie's got a bite!" "Alas!" "Bow, vow," "oh! owl"
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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 23, 10 January 1844, Page 4
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