``There was an ex-editor, L------,
``Who rowed in the _Courier_ punt,
`But to twist around more, he jumped out on the shore,
``That contortious poetical L------.=
``Oh G------ T------ C------ was one
``Who thought himself quite a great gun;
`So Treason he shouted, "Constitution" he spouted,
``But Boston grew hot for such "Union Men"--so
``He herds in New York with Fernando & Co.=
``To the cause of his country adverse,
``Is the man whom all honest men curse.
`Do you ask what's his name? oh, ne'er believe Fame,
``If it be not Ex-President Pierce.=
``In Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six,
``A poet, disgusted with Pierce's tricks,
``Said that he down to the dust should go,
``To grovel there in infamy low.
``And in Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three,
``The prophecy came to pass, I see,
``Since in the dust and on the ground,
``As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round".=
``What a pity that Joshua D.
``A good Insolvency lawyer should be,
``Yet cannot, in politics, as we see,
``Keep his own good name from bankruptcie!=
``John C. passes, now and then,
``For one of Boston's League-al men.
``Mistake me not--he doth intrigue
``With the Liquor--not the Union--League!=
``Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses,
``Scrapings of the dangerous classes,
``Pettifoggers malign, but weak,
``Who dare not fight and cannot speak;
``_Trash_ which the war-tide rolling high
``Has cast ashore in scorn to dry;
``"Aristocrats" who fear to wage
``Brave battle in a stirring age,
``As did their glorious sires before,
``Who won thereby the fame they wore;
``Oh G. S. H--------, tell us true.
``Is this fit company for you?=