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On seeing "The Young Veteran," John Bannister, toddling up Gower-street,
after he had attained his seventieth birthday.
WRITTEN BY SIR GEORGE ROSE,
AND COMMUNICATED BY J. P. HARLEY, ESQ.
With seventy years upon his back, Still is my honest friend "Young Jack," Nor spirits check'd nor fancy slack, But fresh as any daisy. Though Time has knock'd his stumps about, He cannot bowl his temper out; And all the Bannister is stout, Although the Steps be crazy.
An Irish Patient