The ear that is ticklish will meet with it there.

The taste of the public will often insist on

A solo for trumpet or cornet-à-piston,

Which, played well or ill, from the audience draws,

At Christmas, a general round of applause;

During holiday time you can never do wrong

If even a passage you gave to the gong,

Or formed a quartette most delicious and tender,

With poker, and shovel, and tongs, and the fender.

The overture's finished, the curtain's ascended,