And at last ends the age of cant.”
If people can grow excited singing that, my songs would send them crazy.
Then there is the Coalition. I have had a good deal of difficulty about this, but I think that at last I have hit the right note; all my first efforts were too dignified. This goes to a darkie tune:—
The Piebald Mare.
Air—Camptown Ladies.
Down-town darkies all declare,
Doo-dah, doo-dah,
There never was a hoss like the piebald mare
Doo-dah, doo-dah day!
One half dark and the other half pale,