With living in this ditch;"
He said, "I am fatigued and weary,
I would that I were rich."
The two other verses of this parody have no great merit, and, indeed, the above are only quoted to show that more than forty years ago there was an outcry about the wretched habitations of our London poor.
THE BUGLE SONG.
[At the commencement of the Wagnerian performances at Bayreuth, the chief motivo in the opera was given out by several bugles, after which the curtain rose.]
The bugle calls in Bayreuth's halls
Some notes of Wagner's mythic story;
The tenor shakes, the heroine quakes,