Let us laugh and let us quaff,
Good drinkers think none ill a ;
Here is your bag, here is your staffe,
Be packing to the mill a."
"In a certain fair island, for commerce renown'd,
Whose fleets sailed in every sea,
A set of fanatics, men say, there was found,
Who set up an island and worship around,
And called it by name Elessdé.
Many heads had the monster, and tails not a few,
Of divers rare metals was he;
And temples they built him right goodly to view,
Where oft they would meet, and, like idolists true,
Pay their vows to the great Elessdé.
Moreover, at times would their frenzy attain
(Twas nought less) to so high a degree,
That his soul-blinded votaries did not complain,
But e'en laid down their lives his false favour to gain-
So great was thy power, Elessdé.
As for morals, this somewhat unscrupulous race
Were lax enough, 'twixt you and me ;
Men would poison their friends with professional grace,
And of the fell deed leave behind ne'er a trace,
For the sake of the fiend, Elessdé.
Then forgery flourished, and rampant and rife
Was each form of diablerie;
While the midnight assassin, with mallet and knife,
Would steal on his victim and rob him of life,
And all for thy love, Elessdé.
There were giants of crime on the earth in that day,
The like of which we may not see:
Although, peradventure, some sceptic will say
There be those even now who acknowledge the sway Of the god of the world
"What is earth, Sexton ?-A place to dig graves.
What is earth, Rich man ?-A place to work slaves.
What is earth, Greybeard ?-A place to grow old.
What is earth, Miser ?-A place to dig gold.
What is earth, Schoolboy?-A place for my play.
What is earth, Maiden ?-A place to be gay.
What is earth, Seamstress ?-A place where I weep.
What is earth, Sluggard ?-A good place to sleep.
What is earth, Soldier ?—A place for a battle.
What is earth, Herdsman ?-A place to raise cattle.
What is earth, Widow ?-A place of true sorrow.
What is earth, Tradesman ?-I'll tell you to-morrow.
What is earth, Sick man ?-'Tis nothing to me.
What is earth, Sailor?-My home is the sea.
What is earth, Statesman ?-A place to win fame.
What is earth, Author ?-I'll write there my name.
What is earth, Monarch ?-For my realm it is given.
What is earth, Christian?—The gateway of heaven.”
ACROSTICS, 198
Ad Chloen, M.A., 105
Addresses, the Rejected, 15.
Ad Mortem, 56
Ad Professorem Linguæ Germanicæ, 101
"Alice in Wonderland," verses from, 42,
Alliterative verses from "Society," 210
American Traveller, the, 132
Am Rhein, 99
Analytical, Ode to Davies', 159
Angel in the House, the, 239
Animal Alphabet, an, 206
Anticipatory Dirge, an, 146
Arab and his Donkey, the, 167
Arundines Cami, the, 129, 130
BA, ba, Black Sheep, 129
Ballad of the Period, a, 217
Ballads, the Bon Gualtier, 31
Bandit's Fate, the, 30
Barham, Mr., parody by, 28; macaronic
Battle of Frogs and Mice, the, 10
Bayard Taylor, lines by, 36
Billet-Doux, a, 166
Biter Bit, the, 40
Blank Verse in Rhyme, 248
Boke of Colin Clout, 62
Bonaparte, anagram on. 196, 197
Bon Gaultier Ballads, the, 31
Bore's Head, Bringing in the, 61
Boxiana, 177
Boyle Godfrey, Epitaph on, 150
Breach of Promise, lines on a, 156
Bret Harte, verses by, 38, 154, 162
Brook, the, parody on, 39
Brooks, Shirley, lines by, 30
Brownrigg, Mrs., lines on, 26
Buckland, Professor, Dirge on, 146
Bunker Hill, alliterative lines on, 204
Burial of Sir John Moore, parodies on,
27, 28
Burnand, F. C., parody by, 46
Burns, mosaic poem on, 225,
Burton, Mrs., parody by, 49
Buttes, Thomas, acrostic by, 199
Byrom, Mr., hymn by, 57; lines by, 234
Byron, parody on style of, 21
CALVERLY, Mr., 39, 41
Camden on Anagrams. 188
Canning and Frere, 26
Captain Smith and Pocahontas, 113
Carlyle, Thomas, anagram on, 196
Carmen ad Terry, 96
Carol, Christmas, 61
Carpette, Knyghte, ye, 42
Carroll, Lewis, parodies by, 42, 43, 50;
lines by, 218
Ce Meme Vieux Coon, 94
Centennial Exhibition, the, lines on, 51
Chain Verses, 53
Chanson without music, 89
Chinese English, 122
Clara Morchella Deliciosa, To, 152
Clock, the Musical, 54
Clubbis Noster, 81
Coincidences and Contrarieties, 138
Colin Clout, Boke of, 62
College macaronics, 110, 112
Collins, Mortimer, lines by, 33, 34, 105
Comic Latin Grammar, lines from, 73
Concatenation Verse, 53
Contenti Abeamus, 86
Correspondents, To, 238
Cotton Mather, 192
Crabbe, parody on, 16
Crawford, Mrs., 209
Cremation, 47, 48.
Cumulative Parodying, 247
DAVIES' Analytical, Ode to, 159
Dean Swift, III
Death of the Sea-Serpent, 77
De Leguleo, 88
Detection," Harsnett's, 62
Dirge on Professor Buckland, 146
Disraeli, Benjamin, 243
Diversions of the Echo Club, 36
Doctor, Southey's, 190
Druggist, Lament of an unfortunate, 157
Drury Lane, a tale of, 22
Drury, Rev. H., 129
Gentle Echo on Woman, 229
Geological Address, a, 154
Geological Madrigal, a, 162
Gilbert, W. S., lines by, 218
Maginn, Dr., 67; epitaph on, 175
Mahony, Rev. Francis, 129
Malum Opus, 95
"Gentle Shepherd," the sign of the, 109 Man and the Ascidian, 161
Goldsmith, parody on lines by, 30
Guide to English, a New, 115
HARTE, Bret, verses by, 38, 154, 162
Hegemon of Thasos, 10
Henry Martin the Regicide, 26
Hey diddle diddle, new version of, 127
Holland, Lord, 220
Holmes, Dr., macaronic by, 89
Homœopathic Soup, 165.
Hone's Every-Day Book, 60
Microscopic Serenade, 148
Milman, lines from, 235
Milton, Parody on, II
Moments, the Watch's, 235
Monk, Duke of Albemarie, 192
Monosyllabic Song, 249
Moore, parodies on, 21, 22, 45, 46
Morituri te Salutant, 169
Mosaic poems, 224
Musical Ass, the, 176
Musical Clock, the, 54
Hood, Thomas, parody by, 27, 29; Mycological Serenade, a, 152
Horace, Second Epode of, 67
Household Words, lines from, 216
NAHUM Fay on the loss of his wife, 179
How the Daughters come down at Du- Native names, 132
New Versions of Nursery Rhymes, 125-
Palmerston, Lord, anagram on, 196
Parterre, the, 121
Patmore, Mr. Coventry, 239
Pennell, H. C., parody by, 44, 45
Philips, John, 11
Pidgin English, 122
Smith, James and Horace, 15
Smith, Sydney, 111
Soliloquy in Hamlet, parodies on, 46, 47
Solo, the, 241
Song from Garrick Collection, 249
Southey's Kehama, parody on, 20
Planché, Mr., songs by, 50; acrostic by, Spelling Reform, 141
RADENOVITCH, the, 180
Recipe for Salad, a, 34
Recognition, the, 40
Red Riding Hood, Little, 83
Rejected Addresses, the, 15
Rex Midas, 70
Rhyme for Musicians, a, 135
Rhymes, nursery, new versions of, 125-
128
Robert Burns, mosaic poem on, 225
Roman Nose, the, 170
Rudiger, Andreas, 191
Ruggles' Ignoramus, 63
Ruling Power, the, 178
ST. George et his Dragon, 79
Salad, recipe for, 34
Scott, Sir Walter, parody on, 22
Sea-Serpent, the, 76
Serenade, microscopic, 148
Serenade, mycological, 152
Sermon, a Temperance, 145
"Serve-um-Right," 99
Sheridan, Dr., 111; lines by, 172, 173
Shipwreck, the, 214.
Shootover Papers, the, 35
Skelton, poet-laureate, 62, 174
Slidell and Mason, 92
Smith, Dr. Charles, epitaph by, 149
Splendid Shilling, the, II
Sun-dial, lines on a, 237
Surnames, 136
Swift, Dean, 11I
WATCH-case verses, 232
"We met," &c., 29
Whaley, Peter, anagram on, 194
Wig and the Hat, the, 95, 183
Wilson, John, 193
Wine, a Treatise on, 73
Wordsworth, parody on, 32
YACHT Alphabet, a, 213.
"You are old. Father William," 43
Yriarte, Tomaso de, 177
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