Why are lovers’ sighs like long stockings? Because they are heigh ho’s.
Why is a child seated down to perform a long sum, like a thermometer at zero? Give it up?—Because it is down to cipher.
HYMN FOR THE NEW YEAR.
THE WORDS AND MUSIC COMPOSED FOR MERRY’S MUSEUM;
THE LATTER BY GEO. J. WEBB.
Another year is past and gone,
Bearing its wishes, hopes and fears,
As winds, the leaves,—away, away—
To rest with-in this vale of tears.