The despot's song

Caption title. Poetry in five eight-line stanzas printed in black within double line border. At head of text cut of elephant carrying banner with legend: I carry along! Title printed on elephant's blanket. At end of text: Baltimore, March 15, 1862; type-signed "Ole Secesh." E.P. Ellinger in "Southern war poetry," p. 28, attributes the work "From circumstantial evidence" to Dr. N.G. Ridgely."