Smiling on me as I'm sitting (in a draught from yonder door),

And often in the nightfalls, when a precious little light falls

From the wretched tallow candles on my gloomy second-floor,

(For I have not got the gaslight on my gloomy second-floor)

Comes an echo, 'Nelly Moore!'


ROBERT HENRY NEWELL.

('ORPHEUS C. KERR')

REJECTED NATIONAL ANTHEMS.