THE WISE MAN OF THE EAST.
SIR PETER LAURIE begs Punch to inform him, which of Arabia’s Children is alluded to in Moore’s beautiful ballad,
“Farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter.”
He presumes it is Miss Elizabeth, commonly called Bess-Arabia.
SONGS OF THE SEEDY.—No. VII.
I love the night with its mantle dark,
That hangs like a cloak on the face of the sky;