From the ranks, one day, cried PRIVATE JAMES, "Oh! MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN, I've doubts of our respective names, My mournful mind upon. "A glimmering thought occurs to me, (Its source I can't unearth) But I've a kind of notion we "I've a strange idea, each other's names That we have each got on. Such things have been," said PRIVATE JAMES. "They have!" sneered GENERAL JOHN. My GENERAL JOHN, I swear upon My oath I think 't is so "Pish!" proudly sneered his GENERAL JOHN, And he also said, 66 66 Ho! ho!" My GENERAL JOHN! my GENERAL JOHN ! JOHN !" "This aristo quoth he, cratical sneer upon Your face I blush to see! Bal "No truly great or generous cove Deserving of them names Would sneer at a fixed idea that's drove In the mind of a PRIVATE JAMES ! " Said GENERAL JOHN," Upon your claims "But being a man of doubtless worth, If That we were probably changed at birth, I'll venture to say you're right." So GENERAL JOHN as PRIVATE JAMES And PRIVATE JAMES, by change of names, TO A LITTLE MAID By a Policeman C OME with me, little maid, Nay, shrink not, thus afraid Fly not, my love, from me A fairy grot, Where mortal eye There shall thy dwelling be! List to me, while I tell Bab What though its couch be rude, Within its shade? No thought of care Can enter there, No vulgar swain intrude! Come with me, little maid, Live with us, maiden rare Come, for we "want" thee there, Thou elfin thing, To work thy spell, In some cool cell In stately Pentonville! JOHN AND FREDDY JOHN FRED was a very soft young man, While JOHN, though quick, was most Young FRED unsteady. had grace all men above, But JOHN was the strongest. Oh, dance," said she, " to win my love JOHN tries the maiden's taste to strike CLODOCHE AND Co., at the Princess's. But FREDDY tries another style, He knows some graceful steps and does' em A breathing Poem Woman's smile A man all poesy and buzzem. |