RHYMING REVEL-ATIONS. 



SURE never were seen such queer times, since the days of the wide world's creation, 

 Or statesmen found out that it took, three whole kingdoms to make us one nation : 

 Oh, Crowned Heads and Cabinet Chieftains ! attend to this expostulation, 

 Ye HOLY ALLIES ! whose decrees are " all lies' 1 in the world's estimation, 

 Look round on the lands ye have blasted, ye despots ! with dire desolation, 

 And take, as the righteous reward of your deeds, all mankind's execration ! 

 Say, what oh, ye right-divine ravagers ! what is your dread consternation, 

 To see your hope of " settling all Europe" a bottle-of-smoke speculation ? 

 The RUSSIANS may rush on to ruin, despite yourcurs'd confederation, 

 When ruthlessly dooming the POLES land and lieges to extermination ; 

 Though the COUNTESS BRAZINSKI kind soul ! in her great zeal for colonization, 

 Gives twelve thousand young girls to the CZAR, (says the Press) to promote popu- 

 lation ; 

 Though LORD DURHAM'S endeavouring to lick the black bear into civilization, 



Yet YOUNG NICK seems determined to rival t'other Nick in dark deeds of d n. 



That MACHIAVEL METTERNICH matchless in diplomacy's dissimulation 



May soon find his match in the might he now destines to annihilation ; 



And Old FRANK, and his Diet of Donkeys serf-sovereigns 'neath his domination, 



Be transferred to the Diet of Worms by THE PEOPLE'S inflamed indignation ; 



Whilst his proud PRUSSIAN puppet may prove Prussic acid, in due moderation, 



Less baneful to Princes than wrath of their subjects, by vile violation 



Of promises, rashly provoked : for 'tis shewn, plain as predestination, 



That when asses ass-ociate in states, their ass-aults tend to ass-ass-ination. 



Bluff BILLY of NASSAU may dream of prolonging his Dutch disputation, 



And his broad-bottoms bully the Belgians, and block up the Scheldt navigation ; 



But he'll find, if by arms he'd avert that last act of his grace abdication, 



From the Flemings a Flemish account of his armament's anticipation, 



Let not LEOPOLD, lion-skinned king absorbed in his queen's admiration 



By the marital rites be allured from the monarch's more martial vocation ; 



But think upon sinewy Sampson, whose strength, by perfidious prostration, 



Was by Dalilah shorn from his brow and beware of such effemination : 



Beware too of dandy diplomatists doodles too fond of dictation 



And beware, above all, of DER WEYER who's a noodle at negociation. 



As for FRANCE and her freedom, a farce is that phantasy's fine fascination, 



And " the King of the French," a flushed fool a mere scape-goat in sovereign 



station. 



Oh, FRANCE ! it requires of thy sons and thy state little consideration, 

 To warrant, with soothsayer's skill, this political prognostication : 

 " Louis PHILIPPE the First, will be last of the Bourbonite abomination ;" 

 One philippic would fillip him off bag and baggage in expatriation. 

 Say SPAIN ! when shall EUROPE be roused by the wrath of thy regeneration ? 

 And the world that has witnessed thy wrongs, wond'ring, witness thy retaliation ? 

 Say, when shall thy spirit, RIEGO ! behold with sublime exultation, 

 The land of thy love raise her brow from the trammels of such subjugation ? 

 And PORTUGAL ! when shall the tyrant, whose heartless and foul usurpation 

 Seized thy sceptre, thy crown, and thy throne, and doomed thee to dread devasta- 

 tion; 



Say, when shall the tyrant be hurled to his doom, 'midst the loud imprecation 

 Of the brave and the free ? and all earth hail with triumph thy redintegration ! 



PETER SCHLEMIHL. 



