Thy sounds of jolly bravery,’

So he smacked across his knee the bow

And he went to sleep quite savoury.

From Wiseheart’s Merry Songster, Dublin.


A String of Poetic Pearls, Apropos of the
Great Diamond in the Exhibition of 1851.

The Koh-i-noor to the wall has gone,

Neglected now you’ll find it,

With scarcely any one looking on,

But a constable set to mind it.