Ah! dreary thoughts and dreams are those AT THE CHURCH GATE. ALTHOUGH I enter not, And near the sacred gate, The Minster bell tolls out And noise and humming : They've hush'd the Minster bell: The organ 'gins to swell: She's coming, she's coming! My lady comes at last, Timid, and stepping fast, And hastening hither, With modest eyes downcast : Kneel, undisturb'd, fair Saint! Meekly and duly; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly. But suffer me to pace Like outcast spirits who wait THE AGE OF WISDOM. Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber's shear All your wish is woman to win, Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was pass'd away? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, Gillian's dead, God rest her bier, Alone and merry at Forty Year, SORROWS OF WERTHER. WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, Till he blew his silly brains out, Charlotte, having seen his body Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. A DOE IN THE CITY. LITTLE KITTY LORIMER, Fair, and young, and witty, What has brought your ladyship Rambling to the City? "Where's the Didland Junction deed ?" Dauntlessly says KITTY. "If you doubt my honesty, Look at my receipt, Sir." Up then jumps the old chief Clerk, KITTY at the table sits (Whither the old Clerk leads her), "I deliver this," she says, "As my act and deed, Sir." When I heard these funny words What are ladies stagging it? Sure, the more's the pity; But I've lost my heart to her, THE LAST OF MAY. (IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION DATED ON THE IST.) By fate's benevolent award, Should I survive the day, I'll drink a bumper with my lord That I may reach that happy time For are not ducks and pease in prime At thirty boards, 'twixt now and then, My knife and fork shall play; But better wine and better men And though, good friend, with whom I dine, And, like this grizzled head of mine, Has seen its last of May; Yet, with a heart that's ever kind A gentle spirit gay, You've spring perennial in your mind, And round you make a May! ‘AH, BLEAK AND BARREN WAS THE MOOR. AH! bleak and barren was the moor, The cottage roof was shelter'd sure, The cottage hearth was bright and warm |