I will not enter there, But suffer me to pace Like outcast spirits who wait THE AGE OF WISDOM. Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, All your wish is woman to win, Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, 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 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 Borne before her on a shutter, A DOE IN THE CITY. LITTLE KITTY LORIMER, Fair, and young, and witty, All the Stags in Capel Court With a sweet perplexity, And a mystery pretty, Threading through Threadneedle Street, Trots the little KITTY. What was my astonishment— Up the Didland stairs she went, "Madam," says the old chief Clerk, "Where's the Didland Junction deed ?" "If you doubt my honesty, KITTY at the table sits 64 (Whither the old Clerk leads her), As my act and deed, Sir." When I heard these funny words This, I thought, should surely be What! are ladies stagging it? THE LAST OF MAY. (IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION DATED ON THE IST.) By fate's benevolent award, I'll drink a bumper with my lord That I may reach that happy time The kindly gods I pray, For are not ducks and peas in prime At thirty boards, 'twixt now and then, But better wine and better men I shall not meet in May. And though, good friend, with whom I dine, Your honest head is gray, 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, "AH, BLEAK AND BARREN WAS THE MOOR." AH! bleak and barren was the moor, An orphan-boy the lattice pass'd, And, as he marked its cheerful glow, And doubly cold the fallen snow. They marked him as he onward press'd, Kind voices bade him turn and rest, |