I cannot rest o' the night, Mother, For my heart is cold and wan: I fear the return o' light, Mother, Since my own true love is gone. O winsome aye was his face, Mother,...
Two twins were once born in a Bedfordshire home; Such events in the best managed households may come; Tho', as Tomkins remarked in a voice rather gruff,...
I'm a Bedfordshire Chap, and Bill Stumps is my name, And to tell it don't give me no manner of shame; For a man as works honest and hard for his livin',...
Wish ye, sons of Alma Mater, Long lost laurels to replace? Listen to a stout old Pater, Once renowned in many a race. Now, alas! I'm fat and forty, And my form grows round to view;...
'Tis done! Henceforth nor joy nor woe Can make or mar my fate; I gaze around, above, below, And all is desolate. Go, bid the shattered pine to bloom; The mourner to be merry;...
A's my new policy called Annexation; B is the Bother it causes the nation. C is Lord Chelmsford, engaged with Zulus; D the Disasters which give me 'the blues.' E is the Effort I make to look merry;...
OXFORD.CAMBRIDGE.1. R. T. RAIKES.1. J. STILL.2. F. CROWDER.2. J. R. SELWYN.3. W. FREEMAN.3. J. A. BOURKE.4. F. WILLAN.4. J. FORTESCUE.5. E. F. HENLEY.5. D. F. STEVENSON.6. W. W. WOOD.6. R. A. KINGLAKE.7. H. P. SENHOUSE.7. H. WA...