We reproduce "Chutney Lyrics" with the eight other comic pieces published in 1871 as their popularity has not diminished and they are frequently enquired for. We trust that this present edition will meet with a renewal of the favor so readily accorded to the previous edition.
H. & CO.
October, 1889.
PREFACE.
My Book, adieu!
Good luck to you!
Sail forth. May you be fated
Unscath'd to ride
O'er every tide,—
With merry ditties freighted.
May fav'ring gales
Swell out your sails,
And bear you on your mission
To reach at last—
All dangers past—
Your port—a New Edition!
O mighty Mail
Lay by your flail,
That all Madras quakes under!
O Times, do thou
Unbend thy brow,
And lay aside thy thunder!
My lightsome rhymes
In thee, oftimes,
Have sunn'd them, Athenæum:
What thou hast nurst—
Shall they be curst?
Thy children—shalt thou d— 'em?
In legends old
Hath oft been told
How Mariner benighted
Ne'er pray'd in vain
To those bright, Twain
By whom all waves are lighted:
And thus to ye
O awful Three
Prefer I my petition!
My bark protect!
Its course direct
Safe—to a New Edition!
O Brama-Times
Receive these rhymes,
Sedate and ancient Being!
O Siva-Mail
Thy foes grow pale
Thy blood-red pen-spear seeing!
O stern yet sweet,
I kiss thy feet—
Great Vishnu-Athenæum!
South Indian Three
O bless ye me
Who sing you this Te Deum!
CONTENTS.
[Sir R-ch-rd T-mpl-'s Ghost]
[The Jollipore Ball]
[Captain Brown of the Police]
[The Catastrophe]
[The Poet's Mistake]
[The Griffin's Love-Song]
[The Wonderful Discovery]
[Dr. Little's Grand Antidote for Snake-bites]
[The Good Sir Gammon Row]
[Miss Mantrap]
[Hindoo Maxims]
[Pat O'Brien to his brother Mike]
[The Engineer's Love-Song]
[Banghy Parcels]
[The death of the Rev. Melchizedec Jones]
[Urgent Private Affairs]
[The old Buffer's Advice]
[My Whiskers]
[Mr. Chutney's Confession]
[A specimen of an Indian "Poetical Puff"]
CHUTNEY LYRICS.