Your chimes I shall never more hear ’em,

To part is a Tic Douloureux!

But Tempus has his edax rerum,

And I have my Feeding-Time too!

Farewell then, my golden repeater,

We’re come to my Uncle’s old shop—

And Hunger won’t be a dumb-waiter,

The Cerberus growls for a sop!

THE LIFE OF ZIMMERMANN.
(BY HIMSELF).