Sketches of Southport and other poems . CHRISTMAS WISHES. At Chfistijias p/ay, and 7nake good Ch)istmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser. Friends beloved ! I wish you joy ; And all the world beside;May never griefs or cares annoy; Or favours be denied ! Riches, health, and your fate while life shall last; Friends be more, and foes be less,Wheresoeer your lot be cast: These I wish this Christmas time,And my heart goes with the rhyme ! 115. MY CHARLESTOWN BOYS. / have had playmates, I have had my days of childhood, in my joyful , all are go
Sketches of Southport and other poems . CHRISTMAS WISHES. At Chfistijias p/ay, and 7nake good Ch)istmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser. Friends beloved ! I wish you joy ; And all the world beside;May never griefs or cares annoy; Or favours be denied ! Riches, health, and your fate while life shall last; Friends be more, and foes be less,Wheresoeer your lot be cast: These I wish this Christmas time,And my heart goes with the rhyme ! 115. MY CHARLESTOWN BOYS. / have had playmates, I have had my days of childhood, in my joyful , all are gone, the old familiar faces. Charles Lamb. A schoolboys tale, the ivofider of an hour. Byron. My class at Charlestown is a class of boys,As brisk as bees, and quite as fond of noise;A girl, we know, can seldom hold her tongue,And little boys will chatter quite as long. They seem to wish the lesson over soon,And yet delight to spend the afternoonHalf studiously, as if they meant to learn,But could not keep the path without a turn. They talk, and 7vill, een while the teacher tease, but cannot vex him, with their ways;For he, in youth, was full of life, and knowsWhat lively acts from boyish nature flows. 116 On Sunday, verses from St. John were read,And answers put that might to truth have led;But only two essayed to make remark,While all the rest were groping in the dark. And yet these scholars write a fairer hand Than Shakspeare wrote, or Bacon coul
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