Smiling on me as I'm sitting (in a draught from yonder door),

And often in the nightfalls, when a precious little light falls

From the wretched tallow candles on my gloomy second-floor.

(For I have not got the gaslight on my gloomy second-floor,)

Comes an echo, "Nelly Moore!"


TO A CERTAIN SOMEBODY.

(Dedicated to Miss E. Farren, late of the Olympic Theatre.)