The National Clay melodist, a collection of popular and patriotic songs . Now his country will accordTo the patriot, high reward,Vainly sought by chiefs abhorred,Won by Henry Clay. Shout for Clay, of nobler birthThan the monarchs of the earth, Sons of liberty and worth Shout for Henry Clay. VAN CANT COME IT. When pumpkins shall grow on the top of a steeple,\xru showers of pancakes shall fall with the rain :When Benton and Tyler can humbug the people,Van Buren may come back to power again. When grindstones shall turn themselves round on thespindle, And John Bull shall swallow a third part of Ma
The National Clay melodist, a collection of popular and patriotic songs . Now his country will accordTo the patriot, high reward,Vainly sought by chiefs abhorred,Won by Henry Clay. Shout for Clay, of nobler birthThan the monarchs of the earth, Sons of liberty and worth Shout for Henry Clay. VAN CANT COME IT. When pumpkins shall grow on the top of a steeple,\xru showers of pancakes shall fall with the rain :When Benton and Tyler can humbug the people,Van Buren may come back to power again. When grindstones shall turn themselves round on thespindle, And John Bull shall swallow a third part of Maine ;When the Grahamites fatten, and beef-eaters dwindle Van Buren may come back to power again. When mint-drops shall flow up the broad Mississippiini-u £-m<?S no lonSer shall scribble for ^ain :When Ritchie refuses to scold like Zantippe,Van Buren may come back to power again. When camels shall creep through the eve of a needleAnd dunces confess themselves minus in brain When rogues cannot cheat us nor parasites wheedleVan Buren may come back to power again. 76. [ Written for the Clay Melodist.] GO AND NO GO. or, dans scowl at tvs serving men. [Argument. Old Ty, being lamp, imbecile and whollyunableto go alone, calls his serving men lo bring himan ashen staff, to help him along. Finding it too straightand unbending for his purpose, he throws it aside, andbeing in ill humor with ever) thing, dismisses his then calls another set of serving men to bring his oldhickory staff, which being crooked, he thinks belter suit-ed lo Ihe crooks of his limbs. He has hardly taken astep, when it snaps and lets him down, exposing him tothe jeers of the spectators. His hickory staff-bearers,meanwhile, seeing his plight, begin to finger his Dan, a trusty and faiuful man, who stands by onlylong enough to close an important contract for old Ty,has been all the while intently waiehing the movementsof the pariies in the attempt to enable the lame man towalk, and no sooner
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