Comrades, you may pass the rosy. With permission of the chair

I shall leave you for a little, for I'd like to take the air.

Whether 'twas the sauce at dinner, or that glass of ginger beer,

Or these strong cheroots, I know not, but I feel a little queer.

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In my ears I hear the singing of a lot of favourite tunes—

Bless my heart, how very odd! Why, surely there's a brace of moons!

See! the stars! how bright they twinkle, winking with a frosty glare;

Like my faithless cousin Amy when she drove me to despair.

Oh, my cousin, spider hearted! Oh, my Amy! No, confound it!