For many, of his sins, should share the load:

While he kept rising, who asked how he rose?

While we could reap, what cared we how he sowed?

Punch. February 26, 1853.

——:o:——

Elegy.

Written near a Suburban Station House.
By a Ticket-of-Leave-Man.

The muffin-bell proclaims the parting day,

The City clerks wind, weary, to their tea,

The Crusher cookwards plods his steady way,