. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Tbe Stamp-duty on Scotch Linen. SONNET to k SCOTCH OIRL, WASHING LINEN AFTER HER COUNTRY rASHIOM. Well done and wetly, thou Fair Maid of Perth !Thou rankest a washing picture well deservingThe pen and pencilling of Washington Irving: Like dripping Naiad, pearly from her birth, Dashing about the water of the Firth,To cleanse the calico of Mrs Skirving,And never from thy dance of duty swerving, As there were nothing else than dirt on earth 1 Yet what is thy reward ? Nay, do not start 1I do not mean to give thee a new damper j But while thou
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Tbe Stamp-duty on Scotch Linen. SONNET to k SCOTCH OIRL, WASHING LINEN AFTER HER COUNTRY rASHIOM. Well done and wetly, thou Fair Maid of Perth !Thou rankest a washing picture well deservingThe pen and pencilling of Washington Irving: Like dripping Naiad, pearly from her birth, Dashing about the water of the Firth,To cleanse the calico of Mrs Skirving,And never from thy dance of duty swerving, As there were nothing else than dirt on earth 1 Yet what is thy reward ? Nay, do not start 1I do not mean to give thee a new damper j But while thou fillest this industrious part Of washer, wearer, mangier, presser, stamper, Deserving better character—thou art fihaX Bodkin would but call— a common tramper.* * Comic Annual, 1S31. 6o6. The lup ut hl^ ilofession. SONNET TO A DECAYED SEAMAN.* Hail ! seventy-four cut down !—Hail ! Top and Lop Unless Im much mistaken in my notion,Thou wast a stirring tar, before that hop Became so fatal to thy locomotion :—Kow, thrown on shore, like a mere weed of ocean, Thou readest still to men a lesson good,To king and country showing thy devotion. By kneeling thus upon a stump of wood 1Still is thy spirit strong as alcohol ; Spite of that limb, begot of acorn-egg,Methinks—thou naval history in one vol.— A virtue shines, een in that timber leg ;For, unlike others that desert their Poll, Tliou walkest ever with thy Constant Pegl*^ * Comic Annual, 1831. 6o7 HUGGINS AND DUGGINS, A PASTORAL AFTER POPE.* Two swains or clowns—but call them swain*— While keeping flocks on Salisbury Plains,— For all that tend on sheep as drovers Are turnd to songsters or to lovers,— Each of the lass he calld his dear Began to carol loud and clear. First Huggins sang, and Duggins then, In the
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