Wastern Posts and the Prince of Wales.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 570, 15 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

W astern Posts and the Prince of Wales.

It has not been entirely with fireworks and dinners and military pageants that the heir apparent to tho British throne lias been received by his Oriental subjects. Indian poets have celebrated his risit. In a Bengalese journal a poet of Bengal welcomes the Prince in English verso. This minstrel begins his song with the following couplet : Hail ! hatl ! one hundred halli j To tb* mJghtr JPrinc* of Walei ! Ho adds: He will btantlfnUy shoot. Full mtnj a royal tiger brute ; Turning hn th»ir backi they'll dlt, Shot in tht apple ot th»»jr«— An assertion which, to say the least, exhibits a great deal of faith in the Prince's ability as a marksman, and will perhaps cause a feeling of regret among the frequenters of Wimbledon that he did not match his skill with the American sharpshooters there hut summer. One Christianized native of India has written a timely hymn, of which we give a specimen stanza ■ ' Pr-»i*e the lord, my *oul, 0 ! PraiM hi< name al* ays ! May lm tiltit the P. lnceu, And htr huiband Wale* !' The spirit ot this production is entirely praiseworthy, but it ia somewhat lacking in the matter of rhyme, and the allusion

to the Prince inevitably reminds one of Artemus Ward's account of his meeting with that gentleman in Montreal. ' I slapped him on the back,' said Artemus, ' and says I, * Wales, how are you ?' Hut a poem in the vernacular of Bengal deserros the place of honor among these prodii' tions : 'The eldest-b^rn of the Queen of England comes to iw *oror i thf wild bUck waters ; Let as therefore pruert r u the < lephant-headed god (U»D£o_t) rice aod meUt'l batter 1'

The anti-climax id the spcond verse recalls to a writer in Vie ' Methodist ' the familiar Eastern exclamaifoD : 'In the name of the Prophet — figs 1' — ['.New York evening Post.'