Bends willingly to levity thus made.

The other singer was James Carbott, who

A way had all his own; and when he sang,

His hearers to him like a magnet drew;

Their fancy tickled and their laughter rang,

Until they were enraptured thru and thru;

The more he sang the more this feeling grew.

He was the opera star in this young crowd,

Well seasoned as a wielder of the birch;

By neither class nor audience was cowed: