“For they’ll drink it, God bless ’em, again and again!”

Then in Town let me live, and in Town let me die;

For, in truth, I can’t relish the Country—not I.

If I must have a villa in London to dwell,

Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall-mall!

The ANSWER to CAPTAIN MORRIS’s
SONG, “The COUNTRY LIFE.”

I.

As town-bitten bards, bred in fashion and noise,

The country decry, and its health yielding joys;