VOL. VIII.

From the KnickerbocEer. HE MYSTERIOUS DESPOT.
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 THE MYSTERIOUS DEsPOT. l sing mighty potentate,

 Yet tremble while I sing, Lest down on my devoted head

 His fiery wrath bring; For, by Saint George, 1 say and swear He's greater than klng! His sceptre is mighty one, : His realm the worlds wide span, And with a despot's arrogance . He rnies the race of man. --Hateh ne this king, in all the earth,

 So please ye, if ye call. X ,Proteus of thousand shapes, Sometimes like Aristotle, He learnedly sophisticates, Or rhymes like sAmos Cottle;' And sometimes, like Asmodeus,

 Is corked up in bottle. Sometimes he rules by right diY;ne,' While nations bend before him, Till some enthusiast takes fire,

 And undertakes to floor him; And then lie takes some other form,

 And stiH the fools adore him. Sometimes he boasts the godlike power ('Iis dangerous to mock it,) Of making life's pale flame re-shoot;

 When quiyerng in the socket; Ind thus he worketh on mans fears. And, through them, to his pocket. Oftimes the rostrum he ascends, A patriot in his glory, And vows mo party feelings sway And tells the good old story; Until he finds which profits most,

 The pay ofwhig or tory. Anon he takes a hero's guise,

 And fights 6 nations quarrel, And dons his helm, and girds his sword, : And mounts his noble sorrel; He seeks fame's wreath, in hope to find Some gliding on the laurel. He was the friend of Mahomet,

 Who ne'er without his bias Had made the Eastern world believe He was the true Messias; He also, as t IS now believed

 A fittte helped Matthias. Now, reader, should you wish to learn This wonders name and nation, About the last t IS difficult : T5 give true relation; But for the first, King Humbug is

 The monarch's designation. I've. no credentials of his birth, I'd print them if had lem: But 1t doth rather seem to me

 His ma was Eden's madam; For Satan he did humbug her,

 And she did humbug Adam.