The thousand lives lost in a late simoom,
A conflagration, or a bursting leat,
How gallant gentlemen can stoop to cheat,
The spicy current gossip of the Bar—
Can all be found in this or that news-sheet,
Globe, Evening News, Pall Mall, St. James's, Star!
L'ENVOI.
Friend, if you wish for happiness complete,
Look for it in some hamlet distant far.
Forget—where catkins blow and lambkins bleat—