“And this is why I sojourn here

Alone, and idly loitering,

Tho’ all the season’s through and tho’

No ‘stars’ now sing!”

The Figaro. September 15, 1875.

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A Song after Sunset.

The breeze o’er the bridge was a-blowing,

O’er wicked and wan Waterloo,

The busses buzzed, coming and going,