For comfort after their wage-work is done—

No workhouse fires, but cosy fires of Home!—

These thee shall greet, PUNCH-MERLIN, in thy time,

Shall voice them also, not in jest, and swear,

Though men may wound Truth, that she will not die,

But pass, again to come; and, then or now,

Utterly smite foul Falsehood underfoot,

Till, with PUNCH, all men hail her for their Queen!


Climatic Nomenclature for the New Year.