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Prose and Verse Chiefly From the Author's Ms., and All Hitherto Ined. and Uncollected, With Notes and Intr. by R.h. Shepherd
Prose and Verse Chiefly From the Author's Ms and All Hitherto Ined and Uncollected With Notes and Intr by Rh Shepherd Author:Thomas Moore General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ON THE LATE LORD . This lord, when young, had some pretence To honour, public worth, and sense; But, just at forty -- trying age, When, howsoever pure or sage, Both male and female, flesh and blood, Grow rather tired of being good -- A riband which hung out, as prize For the first turn-coat, caught his eyes ; And -- though as neat he, for a shilling or Two, might have of any milliner -- He took it, and aloft was swung, One of those malefactors, hung In ribands, scarlet, green, or blue, For certain awkward things they do, -- . Leaving the world in scorn to laugh at a Man who damn'd his fame for ' taffeta.' THE REFORM BILL. Of all the misfortunes as yet brought to pass By this comet-like Bill, with its long tail of speeches, The saddest and worst is the schism which, alas, It has caused between Wetherall's waistcoat and breeches. Some symptoms of this Anti-Union propensity Had oft broken out in that quarter before ; But the breach, since the Bill, has attain'd such immen- sity, Daniel himself could have scarce wish'd it more. Oh haste to repair it, ye friends of good order, Ye Atwoods and Wynns, ere the moment is past; Who can doubt that we tread upon anarchy's border, When the ties that should hold men are loosening so fast ? Make Wetherall yield to ' some sort of Reform,' (As we all must, God help us, with very wry faces), And loud as he likes let him bluster and storm About Corporate Rights, so he'll only wear braces. Or, if those he has now have been long in possession, And, like his own borough, the worse for the wear, Advise him, at least, as a pru...« less