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Misquotes from Syntax—votes their host a fool—
Will any tell, cui bono, is the grade,
Of Majors General, Majors of Brigade,
Of tottering staff whose peaceful pockets fill,
Where all are officers and soldiers nil,
Whose only care’s sufficiency of “ale,”
And strive to prove their wives marsupial———
From Horse Guards patronage our shores defend’
We’ll pay the Forces; but old crones forefend.
Pray who is “Eldershaw,” where flown, where came
| I knew a dark brown mare with just that name Brands 8 on shoulder, 0 beneath the mane A good one too, she was, perhaps the same Sprung from ‘Houghnhums,’ known in equine fame |
For ‘Yahoos loiter o’er her burnt demesne;——
If not a horse; one thing is clear as glass
These dry rot leaves are leavings of an Ass
Mid muffs like these Sam Raymond has a chance,
Long latent genius shall at last advance,
Burst from the shadows where it lay entranced
Like angel visits ’t will be more enhanced—
Dubious and dusty dormant MSS,
Escaped the mangle for the printing press,
If I don’t err, old bricks, said diary know
In Eastcheap, Poultry, Paternoster-row
Save Bannister or Baron Field ’tis clear
Brought o’er the rubbish just to shoot it here——
In bygone days, great nunquam dormiens “Bell”
Fired off this squib, which hit extremely well
As point blank range suits now as well then,
God save the mark, why let it off again
“The Gazette of St. Francisco offers dollars thousands five
For the head of Peter Raymond who it seems is ell alive
Happy, happy San Francisco, better far than Sydney
town
Where you cannot find a Raymond with a head worth
half-a-crown
