Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate

by Frank Thorpe Porter

To Gen'ral Goodhumor the duty's assigned

Of keeping the ground, and the public shall find

He'll drive away Rancor and Prejudice, too,

Till Gen'ral Applause greets The Irish Review.

LINES IN AN ALBUM.

I wrote at the request of my beloved and truly lamented son, Austin Duggan Porter, the following lines in his Album:—

My youthful years have pass'd away,

My step hath lost its lightness,

And scanty locks, once brown, then gray,

Now show unvaried whiteness.