They tell me Nancy Low BACKING THE FAVORITE ! Он, a pistol, or a knife! For I'm weary of my life; My cup has nothing sweet left to flavor it; And my heart is like my purse And all through backing of the Favorite! At dear O'Neil's first start, I sported all my heart; Oh, Becher, he never marred a braver hit! For he crossed her in her race, And made her lose her place, And there was an end of that Favorite! Anon, to mend my chance, For the goddess of the Dance* I pined, and told my enslaver it; But she wedded in a canter, And made me a Levanter, In foreign lands to sigh for the Favorite! * The late favorite of the King's Theatre, who left the pas seul of life, for a perpetual Ball. Is not that her effigy now commonly borne about by the Italian image-vcnders-an ethereal form holding a wreath with both hands above her head—and her husband, in emblem, beneath her foot? Then next Miss M. A. Tree I adored, so sweetly she Could warble like a nightingale and quaver it; But she left that course of life To be Mr. Bradshaw's wife, And all the world lost on the Favorite ! But out of sorrow's surf, Soon I leaped upon the turf, Where Fortune loves to wanton it and waver it; But standing on the pet, Oh, my bonny, bonny Bet!" Black and yellow pulled short up with the Favorite! Thus flung by all the crack, I resolved to cut the pack; The second-raters seemed then a safer hit! So I laid my little odds. Against Memnon! Oh, ye gods! Am I always to be floored by the Favorite! THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS. THE Germans for Learning enjoy great repute; One liking this, one hating that, Miss Brown of chapels goes in search, There's Mr. Bell, a Whig at heart, Not so with us;-with equal zeal Miss Pope her "Light Guitar" enjoys, We all on vocal music dote, Of melody" The Young May Moon;" Miss Powell likes to draw and paint, |