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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Spawn of Ixion, Or The 'Biter Bit', An Allegory + +Author: James Ewing Cooley + +Release Date: May 18, 2011 [EBook #36135] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SPAWN OF IXION, OR THE *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus, Diane Monico, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + + + + + + +THE + +SPAWN OF IXION; + + +OR, + +The 'Biter Bit.' + + +AN + +ALLEGORY. + + +FORGE OF VULCAN. + +1846. + + + + +THE SPAWN OF IXION. + + +When Ixion from heaven was hurl'd +To hell, to be for ever whirl'd +In a perpetual damning wheel, +The pit's eternal pains to feel; +'Twas for a bestial, vulgar deed, +Whereby that mortal did succeed +In sinking Juno to the sod-- +Seducing e'en that beaut'ous god! +Abomination foul, was this, +To ruin lovely Juno's bliss!-- +To raise in heaven domestic strife, +'Twixt Jupiter and his lov'd wife!-- +With sins that never were forgiven, +To scandalize the court of heaven! +When Jupiter in pity took +This wretch to heaven, on earth forsook, +He was a vile contempt'ous thing, +Despised by peasant, prince and king; +A wand'ring vagrant, shun'd and curst, +For sending AEneus to the dust. +The aged father of his wife, +Base Ixion deprived of life! +Into a pit of burning fire +He cast poor AEneus to expire!-- +And, while this cruel, murd'rous knave, +For sending AEneus to his grave, +From every circle under heaven +With scorn contemptuous, was driven, +This wretched outcast, here forsaken, +By Jupiter, was kindly taken +Into the realms above the skies, +And introduced to deities! +E'en at the tables of the gods +He set this scoundrel of the clods! +Such heavenly condescension should +Inspire a mortal's gratitude: +In Ixion's base and blacken'd breast +Some thankfulness should even rest. +His heart, though steep'd in every deed +Of darkness, in the devil's creed-- +In every sin that stains the earth, +Or blackens hell, which gave it birth, +Should now have felt a kindly glow +For what great Jupiter did do. + But Ixion did only feel +A base desire at once to steal +The heart of Juno, and to tread +On Jupiter's celestial bed! +He had an intrigue with the cloud +Of Juno, which the gods allow'd; +And thus the monstrous Centaur came +From Ixion's and Juno's shame. +But Jupiter with thunder hurl'd +The villain from the heavenly world,-- +Sent him to hell fore'er to feel +The ceaseless torments of the wheel. +But his vile offspring stays behind, +The bane and curse of human kind,-- +Possessing still the bestial fire, +Which deep disgraced and damn'd the sire: +The same inglorious meanness strays +In the vile veins and verse and lays +Of him, on crutches, devil half, +(At whom his kindred centaurs laugh,) +In that deformity of hell. +On whom its attributes have fell, +In him, whose shameless, wicked life +Is with abomination rife, +Whose works, thrice damn'd and doubly dead, +The produce of conceit and lead, +Possess no other aim nor end +But foul abuse of foe and friend. +His heart, polluted with the dung +Of demons damn'd, from hell out flung, +Is rotten to the core with lies, +From which foul slanders thickly rise. +His soul, most pitiful and mean, +Infected with hell-scorch'd gangrene, +No kind, redeeming trait contains, +But reeks with bestial blots and stains. +His mind, with vulgar vice imbued, +Libidinous and low and lewd, +Deep stained with malice, hate and spleen, +With sentiments supremely mean, +Is bent on mischief, foul as hell, +O'er which the hideous Centaurs yell. +Low was his birth and low his name, +Low is his life, and low his fame; +But lower still the depths of wo, +Where Park, when dead and damn'd, must go. +Friends, foes or fiends, alike he fights, +In all he says, or sings, or writes. +This foul defamer, crawling round +The brink of hell, to catch its sound, +Exsudes it thence, in doleful rhyme, +Debased and reeking rank with crime. + On this deformity of man, +More monstrous than the bastard Pan, +Pegasus turn'd his nimble feet, +As Park, on crutches, crawl'd the street; +Urging that steed, against his will, +To bear him up Helicon's hill. +But Pegasus, a knowing horse, +Perceived that Park's conceited verse +Was only suited to the stews +Of hell, whence emanates his muse. +He, therefore, with Bellerophon, +Left him behind, well trampled on, +To tune a pilfer'd, broken lyre, +In fields of mud, and muck, and mire; +And there, his song most lowly set, +Winding through marshes, undulcet, +Contending always with the fog, +Unable e'er to flee the bog, +Does charm, perhaps, the frogs and snakes, +And loathsome reptiles of the lakes. +Although some demon's wand'ring sprite +May, haply, listen with delight, +To Park's low, grov'ling, growling song, +As, through the sloughs, it pours along; +And though in marshes, fens and ditches, +It may, perhaps, amuse the witches; +Yet, should an unsuspecting team +Hear, unawares, the dismal scream +Of his lugubr'ous, muck-born verse, +'Twould sadly frighten every horse. +And, had the Children in the Wood +Just heard his strain, and understood +Its wretched, wrangling, dismal din, +How frighten'd had those children been!-- +Believing soon that doom would crack, +Or that the de'il was on their track! +Had Robert Kid, that pirate knave, +Heard it come creaking o'er the wave, +He had supposed some demon's shell +Was sounding from the gates of hell. +The red men, savage, wild and rude, +Deep buried in their solitude, +Would wake affrighted from their dreams, +If, haply, Park's poetic screams +Should penetrate their secret lair; +And they, forthwith, would kneel in prayer +To the great Spirit of the sun, +Believing that their days were done; +That hell's dark hole was open thrown, +And that this strain was Satan's own, +In wrath, now prowling through the wood, +Devouring Indians for his food. + Ev'n David Crockett would have run, +Affrighted, from his game and gun, +Had he but heard, in woods remote, +Park's incongruous jangling note, +Wild screeching on the western gale, +An unpoetic dismal wail: +Nor stopp'd in his despairing flight, +In San Jacinto, e'en, to fight; +But, rushing wildly and forlorn, +E'en to the billows, off Cape Horn, +Most likely there, himself had drown'd, +In terror of the doleful sound. +In western wilds, had Daniel Boon +But heard, for once, the lecherous loon, +He would have dropp'd his axe and gun, +And, to the eastward, rapid run; +Nor stay'd, in all his fearful flight, +For wind or storm, through day and night, +Till he some civil spot could reach, +Uncursed by Park's dolorous screech. +And had Columbus heard his roar, +When first he landed on this shore, +He would have turn'd his bark amain, +And never ventured here again; +Impress'd that, in this western world, +There was, from Pandemonium hurl'd, +Some spirit damn'd for e'er to bark +The hideous songs of hideous Park.-- +The owls and bats that curse the land, +Could they but hear and understand +The wretched rhymes and nauseous stuff +Of this conceited, vile ruff-skuff, +Would, surely, leave their secret haunts, +And ever cease their nightly chants; +Convinced that they have been, at last, +In frightful strains, by Park surpast; +And that this vagrant of the muse, +Foul caterer for sinks and stews,-- +The Five-Points' poet, has outdone +All they have ever screech'd or sung. +Despairing, thence, they would retire +Long distance from his loathsome lyre, +And let their lonely caves and rocks +Resound with his poetic shocks; +To be, perhaps, all rent in twain +By his unearthly, rumbling strain. + As I was musing on this theme, +I fell asleep, and had a dream: +I saw the fish that skim the deep, +And o'er the billows nimbly leap, +All sink beneath the boiling wave, +Down to the lowest depths, to lave: +For they had heard the dismal lay +Of Park come booming down the bay, +And, doubtless, thought some hungry shark +Was chasing them with hellish bark; +That his sharp teeth, already nigh, +Would them destroy, and they must die; +That there, alas, was no escape +From his terrific gab and gape, +And that their gamb'ling, watery run +Was, now, alas, for ever done! +And as they, deep in ocean's ink, +Despairing, to the bottom sink, +O'erwhelm'd by that infernal sound, +They cast a gloomy gaze around, +And call'd on Neptune, sea-throned god, +To smite the rascal with his rod-- +To pierce him with his trident spear, +And pitch him into hell to sear, +To stew, and fry, in Satan's dish, +For frightening thus, poor harmless fish. + But Neptune, monarch of the main, +With scorn contempt'ous and disdain, +Look'd down on Park's lugubrious rhyme, +And hasten'd o'er the boiling brine; +Unheedful of the fishes' cry-- +And left them, with Park's songs, to die! +His foaming horses now he lash'd, +Which, through the boisterous billows, dash'd; +Affrighted at the dismal strain, +Now wildly screeching o'er the main. +The god of ocean's angry wave, +Desirous, only, now, to save +Himself from that unearthly screech, +Flew, swift, with might and main, to reach +The portals of the heavenly world, +Whence Ixion, disgraced, was hurl'd; +And there, to gods assembled, tell +What lately, in the sea, befell +The finny tribes, that swim the deep, +Now sunk, perhaps, in endless sleep! + The hosts of heaven, when Neptune came, +With foaming horses, from the main, +Rejoiced to see the briny king, +The golden gates, wide open, fling; +And, anxiously, all beg to know +The tidings from the world below? + Great Neptune, their celestial guest, +With haste, thus answer'ed their request: +"O Jove, high heaven's majestic king, +To whom all gods due homage bring:" +(And now the monarch of the sea, +With awful reverence, bows the knee), +"I come in haste, and wish to tell +How an infernal fiend from hell,-- +An Ixion spawn,--kick'd down from heaven, +And through the earth, a vagrant, driven, +A cast-off lyre, hath stol'n or begg'd, +Which he, with hempen strings, hath rigg'd; +And now, the ocean, creeks, and bays, +Makes, nightly, hideous, with his lays! +Last night, as I was going to bed, +The villain struck the fish all dead! +His dismal strain, they can't abide, +It smote their ears, and lo, they died! +My noble steeds, affrighted, too, +Like lightning, through the billows, flew; +Nor could, the hellish note, divine, +That creak'd, terrific, o'er the brine; +And, even, I, myself, was shock'd, +And from my chariot, nearly knock'd +Into the boisterous, boiling sea, +By that astounding minstrelsy. +And, now, by all the gods above, +By all that men or angels love, +I call for thunderbolts or fire, +To dash this scoundrel and his lyre!" + Great Jupiter, with horror struck, +In wrath, the heavenly mansion shook; +And order'd Vulcan, quick, to forge +A thunderbolt, tremendous large, +With which he smote the venal ghost, +And cast him into hell, to roast! + Now, aught ---- ---- ever wrote, +Let none but fiends incarnate, quote; +For, why should men or angels name +What only sprites infernal claim; +Or, why should men, to darkness, turn, +A hell-curs'd villain's verse, to learn; +Or, in poetic marshes, grope, +To save a scoundrel from the rope;-- +To save from damn'd oblivion, Park, +The vilest hound of hell, to bark, +To howl, to scream, and vilify +The rich, the poor, the low, the high; +Who pours on virtue's hallow'd leaf +The vile pollutions of a thief; +Who age, nor youth, nor beauty spares; +But, vulture-like, voracious, tears +The guileless maid and spotless heart, +And stabs them with his venom'd dart! +Let Satan bind, with chains of fire, +This vain, conceited, bestial liar; +Whom gods, and men, and angels spurn, +And call on hell his soul to burn! + + + * * * * * + + +Transcriber's Notes + + +Page 10: Changed aud to and + (He would have dropp'd his axe aud gun,) + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Spawn of Ixion, Or The 'Biter +Bit', An Allegory, by James Ewing Cooley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SPAWN OF IXION, OR THE *** + +***** This file should be named 36135.txt or 36135.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/1/3/36135/ + +Produced by Gerard Arthus, Diane Monico, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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