The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

NOVEMBER.—S^t. Cecilia's Day.

MUSIC'S POWER.

Music hath pow'r over all the world:

By the old and young 'tis prized.

'Tis loved by the great, 'tis loved by the small,

And by the middle-sized.

Music hath pow'r o'er the warrior stern,

In days of repose or of strife.

In battle, the bagpipe is passing sweet:

In peace, the drum and fife.