He departed this life some time since, some time since,
And he had no capillary substance on the summit of his cranium,
On the place designed by nature for the capillary to vegetate.
CHORUS.
Then lay down the agricultural implements,
Allow the violin and the bow to be pendent on the wall.—
For there is no more physical energy to be displayed by indigent aged Edward,
For he has departed to the abode designated by a kind Providence for all pious, humane, and benevolent individuals.
Uncle Edward had digits equal in longitude to the
Bamboo formation which springs so spontaneously on the bank of the Southern Mississippi,