Trip, trip, trip,
Oh, life with health is sweet;
And still in a voice both strong and quick,
Would that its tones could reach the sick,
He sang the Song of the Sheet.
From Health and Pleasure, or Malvern Punch. By J. B. Oddfish, Esq., M.P., L.L.D. (Malvern Patient, Doctor of Laughs and Liquids).
Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London, 1865.
THE SONG OF THE STREET.
(To the memory of the good, the genial, the large-hearted Thomas Hood, this humble imitation of his "Song of the Shirt" is inscribed by the writer).