“THOSE EVENING BELLS.”

THOSE EVENING BELLS.
“I’D BE A PARODY.”

THOSE Evening Bells, those Evening Bells,

How many a tale their music tells,

Of Yorkshire cakes and crumpets prime,

And letters only just in time!—

The Muffin-boy has pass’d away,

The Postman gone—and I must pay,

For down below Deaf Mary dwells,