But I steam on for ever!
Truth, August 11, 1881.
The Sherbrooke.
(Not by Tennyson.)
I come from haunts of statesmen hard,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out a life-long bard
En-thu-si-as-ti-cally.
My life has run o’er stony ways,
I’ve seemed all sharps and trebles;