I vowed that you should have my hand, But Fate gives us denial; You'll find it there, at Doctor Bell's, In spirits and a phial. As for my feet. the little feet You used to call so pretty, There's one, I know, in Bedford Row, The t'other's in the city. I can't tell where my head is gone, As for my trunk, it's all packed up I wish you'd go to Mr. P. And save me such a ride; I don't half like the outside place The cock it crows-I must be gone! Don't go to weep upon my grave, They haven't left an atom there TIM TURPIN. A PATHETIC BALLAD. TIM TURPIN he was gravel blind, So, like a Christmas pedagogue, Poor Tim was forced to do— Look out for pupils, for he had A vacancy for two. There's some have specs to help their sight Of objects dim and small; And could not see at all. Now Tim he wooed a servant maid, And took her to his arms ; By day she led him up and down A happy wife, although she led But just when Tim had lived a month In honey with his wife, A surgeon oped his Milton eyes, Like oysters, with a knife. But when his eyes were opened thus, Her face was bad, her figure worse, Now Tim he was a feeling man : So with a cudgel in his hand- And when the corpse was stiff and cold, He took his slaughtered spouse, And laid her in a heap with all The ashes of her house. But, like a wicked murderer, The neighbors fetched a doctor in : But when another week was gone, Ah! when he hid his bloody work, But when the parish dustman came, His rubbish to withdraw, He found more dust within the heap Than he contracted for ! A dozen men to try the fact, But though they all were jurors, yet Said Tim unto those jurymen, You need not waste your breath, For I confess myself, at once, And, oh! when I reflect upon Then turning round his head again A great judge, and a little judge, The great judge took his judgment-cap, And sentenced Tim by law to hang So he was tried, and he was hung THE VISION. "Plague on't! the last was ill enough, This cannot but make better proof.”—COTTON, As I sate the other night, Burning of a single light, All at once a change there came Strange it was the blaze to view, Blue as summer sky is blue: One! two! three! four! five! six! seven ! Eight! nine! ten! it struck eleven! Pale as sheet, with stiffened hair, Strange misgiving, true as strange! And as plain as mortals be, |