The Election’s done,
The votes are cast—
And I’ve not won!”
Bits of Beaconsfield. (Abel Heywood & Son, Manchester.)
——:o:——
The Lament of the Peri.
Farewell—farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter
(Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea,)
No pearl ever lay, under Oman’s green water,
More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee.