Where his flowers immortal grow

Shall we strangers be as now?

Once a Week. 1869.

——:o:——

“The Beating of my own Wife.”

(Air—“The beating of my own heart,”
by Lord Houghton).

I’d melted all my wages,

Ere of beer I had my fill,

For a bob I asked the Missus

—There’s a way where there’s a will.