What’s the difference between Charles Kean and Jonah? One was brought up at Eton, the other was eaten and brought up.
I’ve led the powerful to deeds of ill,
And to the good have given determined will.
In battle-fields my flag has been outspread,
Amid grave senators my followers tread.
A thousand obstacles impede my upward way,
A thousand voices to my claim say, “Nay;”
For none by me have e’er been urged along,
But envy follow’d them and breath’d a tale of wrong.
Yet struggling upward, striving still to be
Worshiped by millions—by the bond and free;
I’ve fought my way, and on the hills of Fame,
The trumpet’s blast pronounced the loud acclaim.
When by the judgment of the world I’ve been
Hurl’d from the heights my eyes have scarcely seen,
And I have found the garland o’er my head
Too frail to live—my home was with the dead.
Ambition.
Why was Oliver Cromwell like Charles Kean? Give it up, do; you don’t know it; you can’t guess it. Why?—because he was—Kean after Charles.
What is the difference between a soldier and a fisherman? One bayonets—the other nets a bay.
Ladies who wish the married state to gain,
May learn a lesson from this brief charade;
And proud are we to think our humble muse
May in such vital matters give them aid.
The Lady B—— (we must omit the name)
Was tall in stature and advanced in years,
And leading long a solitary life
Oft grieved her, even to the fall of tears.
At length a neighbor, bachelor, and old,
But not too old to match the Lady B——,
Feeling his life monotonous and cold,
Proposed to her that they should wedded be.
Proposed, and was accepted—need we say?
Even the wedding-day and dress were named;
And gossips’ tongues had conn’d the matter o’er—
Some praised the union, others strongly blamed.