’Tis false, ’tis false! ’Twas my own fault
I’ll risk another spill.
Thus, thus I mount on you again,
And o’er the asphalte fly—
Away! who’d win you for her own,
To catch us let her try!
From Idyls of the Rink By A. W. Mackenzie. Second Edition. London. Hardwicke & Bogue. 1877.
BINGEN ON THE RHINE.
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers—