Sometimes a hand-sometimes a little shoe- However, we snatched up the corse thus thrown, And lo! the features of the Small Unknown! A bond of blood, whereby the sinner gave He might control the course of cards and brave All throws of dice,-but on a sea excursion The juggling demon, in his usual vein, Seized the last cast-and Nicked him in the main! LINES TO A LADY ON HER DEPARTURE FOR INDIA Go where the waves run rather Holborn-hilly, Go where the mild Madeira ripens her juice,— A wine more praised than it deserves to be! Go pass the Cape, just capable of ver-juice, And think of me! Go where the tiger in the darkness prowleth, Go where the serpent dangerously coileth, Go where with human notes the parrot dealeth Go to the land of muslin and nankeening, And think of me! Go to the land of jungles and of vast hills, Go where a cook must always be a currier, Go where the maiden on a marriage plan goes, Go where the sun is very hot and fervent, Where every black will be your slave and servant, THE ANGLER'S FAREWELL. "Resigned, I kissed the rod." WELL! I think it is time to put up! Stiff from throwing the line, To take nothing at last by my motions! To inveigle the fish, To my gentle they will not play simple! Though my float goes so swimmingly on, And the Chub, tho' it's chubby, be thinnish! Not a Trout there can be in the place, With attention I look, I can ne'er see my hook with a Tench on! At a brandling once Gudgeon would gape, Of the "Council of Nice," And rejected their "Diet of Worms," now? In vain my live minnow I spin, Not a Pike seems to think it worth snatching; For the gut I have brought, I had better have bought A good rope that was used to Jack-ketching! Not a nibble has ruffled my cork, It is vain in this river to search then ; Without any bite And at roost-time have never a Perch then! No Roach can I meet with-no Bleak, And I fear it is not "Carpe diem," a day for the Carp now! Oh! there is not a one-pound prize Of so fishless a stream But that 'tis-like St. Mary's-Ottery! For an Eel I have learned how to try, Little prospect of Eels, In a path that's devoted to towing! I have tried all the water for miles, Till I'm weary of dipping and casting, Let the Fancy just paint What it is, without Fish, to be Fasting! And the rain drizzles down very fast, While my dinner-time sounds from a far bell— So, wet to the skin, I'll e'en back to my inn, Where at least I am sure of a Bar-bell! |