Deportmental ditties : and other verses . rack on ;When youve failed to Bpot the winner,You have always got your dinn< c I1.* fall back on. Should adversity assail you, Or a trusted comrade fail you,Or your business bust and leave you stripped and stony, You can seek for consolation In the fond anticipationOf a dish of macaroons or macaroni. With a meal a man may master The effects of each disaster;It applies a healing plaster to the stricken. All our sorrows we can bury As we contemplate a merry-Thought of chicken! Tripe and onions, or a curry, As a remedy for worry,Are beyond my poor capa
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . rack on ;When youve failed to Bpot the winner,You have always got your dinn< c I1.* fall back on. Should adversity assail you, Or a trusted comrade fail you,Or your business bust and leave you stripped and stony, You can seek for consolation In the fond anticipationOf a dish of macaroons or macaroni. With a meal a man may master The effects of each disaster;It applies a healing plaster to the stricken. All our sorrows we can bury As we contemplate a merry-Thought of chicken! Tripe and onions, or a curry, As a remedy for worry,Are beyond my poor capacity for praising; I could write a score of ballads On the soothing powr of salads,Which as sedatives are quite amayonnaising. 121 Deportmental Ditties When I lose a near relation,Or a paying situation,Or a train at any station (where my bag is),Is my faith in mortals shaken ?No ! I order eggs and bacon, Or a haggis! And though Fate be unforgiving, While the world contains cold mutton,Life is surely well worth living— For the glutton !. 122 THE TRUCKS OF TRURO (A BALLAD FOB THE BOUDOII (A writer in Pimch declares that the saddest sight he ever saw was a row of dis-pirited trucks standing in a siding, on each of which was painted the bitter words, Thifitruck not to go East of Truro.) When the waters of the Douro Flow up-country from the sea;When these trucks go East of Truro, Then my heart will faithless be !Sparkling like some rich liqueur, oh !Tender, delicate and pure, oh !As Bellinis chiaroscuro, Is the love that kindles me!When these trucks go East of Truro, Then will I be false to thee ! Though the clerk forget his bureau, I will not forgetful be!Though these trucks go East of Truro, Thou shalt not go East of me!123 Deportmental Ditties Though each celebrated Euro-pean oculist or neuro-Path, when he effects a cure, o- Mit to take his patients fee!Though these trucks go East of Truro, I will still have truck with thee! 124 POETICAL ECONOMY What hours I spent of precious t
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