. The Buntling ball, a Græco-American play; being a poetical satire on New York society . flight, These recreant spousals, but with jest and scoff? The Buntling Ball, O thou perfidious child, Hath turned thy marriage feast. Go, drink and eat With him thy fathers easy pardon jovs. Nor viand nor foaming vintage is for me, But sorrowing solitude through many days— Perchance remorse, repentance . . who shall For I have wrongfully adored the power Of wealth and sought to use it as a stair Whereby ambitions feet might scale renown. But peradventure comfort still remains My suffering spirit through t
. The Buntling ball, a Græco-American play; being a poetical satire on New York society . flight, These recreant spousals, but with jest and scoff? The Buntling Ball, O thou perfidious child, Hath turned thy marriage feast. Go, drink and eat With him thy fathers easy pardon jovs. Nor viand nor foaming vintage is for me, But sorrowing solitude through many days— Perchance remorse, repentance . . who shall For I have wrongfully adored the power Of wealth and sought to use it as a stair Whereby ambitions feet might scale renown. But peradventure comfort still remains My suffering spirit through the exercise Of noble and unstinted charities Hereafter, whose consolatory balm, While healing other wounds, may heal mine , we pity thy supreme distress, i54 THE BUNTLIXG BALL. While solemnly departing, each and all ;Yea, while departing wholly supperless,Amazed that such disturbance should befall. 1 A% Yet deeds once done eternally are \ \ ^ done; The Fates are three, and purblind man is dire events the Fates alone could guess!O sombre ending of the BuntlingBall!. LIBRAE 11
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