The limpid melody would soar and float.

Now like a shattered lute,

The Nightingale who sang in winter's mute;

But long remembered that pure life shall be,

To Music dedicate and vowed to Charity.

[A] See Punch, Vol. XVI., p. 15.


"THE LABOUR MARKET."

First East Countryman. "Shall yeaou Voote for the Dis'tablishment o' th' Chu'ch?"