THE DEVIL'S ALBUM. IT will seem an odd whim As the Devil to take a delight in ; He has come up to town, On a handsomer book Of a flame-colour silk is the binding, Where through flow'ret and herb, The old Serpent goes brilliantly winding! By gilded grotesques, The whole cover, in fact, is pervaded; That betrays they were traced At the will of a Spirit degraded! As for paper-the best, There's a note on the Bank, Who will care to appear It's the public belief, filled by a Lady of Title! EPIGRAM. THE SUPERIORITY OF MACHINERY. A MECHANIC his labour will often discard But a clock-and its case is uncommonly hard— JOHN DAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. "A Day after the Fair."-OLD PROVERB. JOHN DAY he was the biggest man The very horses knew his weight When he was in the rear, Alas! against the shafts of love, The bar-maid of the Crown he He thought her fairest of all fares, And often, among twelve outsides, One day as she was sitting down Said she, my taste will never learn So I must beg you will come here But still he stoutly urged his suit, In vain he wooed, in vain he sued; He fretted all the way to Stroud, At last her coldness made him pine Mary, view my wasted back, Alas! in vain he still assailed, Worn out, at last he made a vow Now some will talk in water's praise, The cruel maid that caused his love, Some say his spirit haunts the Crown, For after riding all his life, His ghost objects to walk. NUMBER ONE. VERSIFIED FROM THE PROSE OF A YOUNG LADY. IT'S very hard!—and So it is, To live in such a row,- For Love goes calling up and down, I'm sick of all the double knocks And one in blue, at Number Two, It's very hard they come so near Miss Bell I hear has got a dear But I go in the balcony, Which she has never done, Yet arts that thrive at Number Five Don't take at Number One! "Tis hard with plenty in the street, And plenty passing by, There's nice young men at Number Ten, But only rather shy; And Mrs. Smith across the way Has got a grown-up son, But la! he hardly seems to know There is a Number One! There's Mr. Wick at Number Nine And though he's pious will not love At Number Seven there was a sale- And here I've got my single lot My mother often sits at work |