No envy shall wound me,
Contented and cheerful thro’ life will I pass,
If fortune befriends me,
And constantly sends me
A quantum sufficit of Oxygen Gas.
For what can so fire us, &c.
THE BARDS OF THE TYNE.
Published in the Tyne Mercury Newspaper, under the Signature of C.P. (Charles Purvis.)
Tune—Newcastle Beer.