esteemed of the South, howbeit he was held
of but little worth in the North, since they who made songs and jokes
for the papers had aforetime laughed him to scorn.

For it had come to pass that sundry niggers, the children of Ham, with
others of the heathen, walking in darkness, had built unto themselves
shanties of sticks and mud, and dwellings of palm-leaves, and given unto
the place a name; even Greytown called they it;

And, waxing saucy, had reviled the powers that be, and chosen unto
themselves a king, wearing pantaloons.

And HOLLINS said unto himself, 'Lo! here is glory!

'Verily here be niggers who are not men of war, strength is not in them,
and their habitations are as naught.'

So he went against them with cannon and sailors, men of war and
horse-marines, and made war upon the children of Ham,

Bombarding their town from the rising of the sun even unto the going
down of the same--there was not left one old woman there, no, not one.

Now when the men of the South, and they which dwell in the isles of the
sea, with those of the uplands,

Heard that HOLLINS had battered down the cabins of the niggers and slain
their hens,

Then they said, 'This is a great man, and no abolitionist.'

And his fame went abroad into all lands, and they made a feast for him,
where they sung aloud, merrily,

'We will not go home, no, not until the morning.

'Until the dayspring shineth we will not repair unto our dwellings.

'Advance rapidly in the days of thy youth,

'For it will come to pass that in thy declining years it will not be
possible.

'Let the tongue of scandal be silent, and let the foot of dull care be
no longer in our dwelling.

'It was in the centre of the Boomjalang, even on a summer day did it
come to pass,--rip snap, let her be again exalted!

'Now let all the elders who are not wedded, even they that are without
wives, fill up the goblet, and let those who are assembled live for many
years!

'Let them drink each unto the handmaid of his heart. May we live for
many years!

'_Vive l'amour, vive le vin, vive la compagnie!_

'We will dance through the hours of darkness to the dayspring, and
return with the damsels, even unto their dwellings.

'There was a man named JOHN BROWN; he owned a little one and it was an
Indian, yea, two Indian boys were among his heritage.

'The ten spot taketh the nine, but is itself taken by the ace, and since
we are here assembled let us drink!

'I will advanc