Shall faithful be, and bear thee some,
My Nose.
Still as I follow thee along,
Oh, mayst thou never lead me wrong!
But thou must hush our sleeping song,
My Nose!
Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an old Servant.
(Edited by Robert Southey, poet laureate, 1831.)
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My Punch.
Upon the express train of the Michigan Railway.
February, 1864. Midnight. Mercury at Zero.
What, in this far benighted West,