And will baffle the arts of the little dark man.


HUMPTY-DUMPTY.

Rich and furr'd was the robe he wore,

And a bright gold chain on his breast he bore;

But, och! his speaking was far beyond

Waithman himself, with his snow-white wand.

"Humpty! do'st thou not fear to stray

With the Lady, so far from the King's highway?

Are Britain's sons so dull or so cold,