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

When Ali, bent upon a breeze,

Was regularly Haily Galey.

31. The Allied Sovereigns entered Paris, 1814, and on the last day of the month ended their march.

COLD WATER.

BY A PUPIL OF ONE OF THE LAKE POETS.

Some sing the peaceful pleasures of the plains,

While other bards invoke the groves and woods;

But I, enamour'd of incessant rains,

Will make my theme cold water and the floods.

Let others sit beneath the leafy shade,