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Good-Morning, Mr. What-d'ye-call! Well! here's another pretty job!
Lord help my Lady! - what a smash! - if you had only heard her sob!
It was all through Mr. Lambert: but for certain he was winey,...

"The Needles have sometimes been fatal to Mariners."
Picture of Isle of Wight.


I.

One close of day - 'twas in the Bay
Of Naples, bay of glory!
While light was hanging crowns of gold...

We watch'd her breathing through the night.
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.

So silently we seem'd to speak,
So slowly moved about,...

'Twas off the Wash - the sun went down - the sea look'd black and grim,
For stormy clouds, with murky fleece, were mustering at the brim;
Titanic shades! enormous gloom! - as if the solid night...

Summer is gone on swallows' wings,
And Earth has buried all her flowers:
No more the lark,--the linnet--sings,
But Silence sits in faded bowers.
There is a shadow on the plain...

"Fly to the desert, fly with me." - LADY HESTER STANHOPE.



'Twas in the wilds of Lebanon, amongst its barren hills, -
To think upon it, even now, my very blood it chills! -...

I.

'Twas in the prime of summer time,
An evening calm and cool,
And four-and-twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school:
There were some that ran and some that leapt,...

Amongst the sights that Mrs. Bond
Enjoyed yet grieved at more than others,
Were little ducklings in a pond,
Swimming about beside their mothers -
Small things like living water-lilies,...

"Like the two Kings of Brentford smelling at one nosegay."


In Brentford town, of old renown,
There lived a Mister Bray,
Who fell in love with Lucy Bell,
And so did Mr. Clay.
...

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees." - As You Like It.


'Twas in a shady Avenue,
Where lofty Elms abound -
And from a Tree
There came to me...

"I am, Sir,"
"With respects from your humble Servant,"

"BARTHOLOMEW RUTT."

"On Monday they began to hunt." - Chevy Chase.


John Huggins was as bold a man
As trade did ever know,...

The swallow with summer
Will wing o'er the seas,
The wind that I sigh to
Will visit thy trees.
The ship that it hastens
Thy ports will contain,
But me! - I must never
See England again!
...

"Down, down, down, ten thousand fathoms deep."
Count Fathom.


Who does not know that dreadful gulf, where Niagara falls,
Where eagle unto eagle screams, to vulture vulture calls;...

"Who's here, beside foul weather?" - KING LEAR.

"Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me,
Should have stood that night against my fire"
- CORDELIA


PART I
...

"Vell! Here I am - no Matter how it suits
A-keeping Company vith them dumb Brutes;
Old Park vos no bad Judge - confound his vig!
Of vot vood break the Sperrit of a Prig!
...

The dead are in their silent graves,
And the dew is cold above,
And the living weep and sigh,
Over dust that once was love.

Once I only wept the dead,
But now the living cause my pain:...

Speaking within compass, as to fabulousness I prefer
Southcote to Northcote.
PIGROGROMITUS.


One day, or night, no matter where or when,
Sly Reynard, like a foot-pad, laid his pad...

"I'll be your second." - LISTON.


In Middle Row, some years ago,
There lived one Mr. Brown;
And many folks considered him
The stoutest man in town.
...

Tom Simpson was as nice a kind of man
As ever lived - at least at number Four,
In Austin Friars, in Mrs. Brown's first floor,
At fifty pounds, - or thereabouts, - per ann....

"A jolly place, said he, in days of old,
But something ails it now: the spot is curst."
WORDSWORTH.


PART I.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams,...