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

Terpsichore quite made me sick;

My dancing days are over.

I used to dance the New Year in,

And dance the Old Year out;

Ah! little did I then reflect

That chacun à son gout,

All summer thro' I skipped and hopped,

At Margate, Ramsgate, Dover.

The year was then one spring—but now

My dancing days are over.