The Humourous Poetry of the English Language

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Two such nights and I shall die!
Lullaby, O, lullaby!
He'll be bruised, and so shall I--
How can I from bed-posts keep,
When I'm walking in my sleep!"
"Lullaby, O, lullaby!
Sleep his very looks deny--
Lullaby, O, lullaby!
Nature soon will stupefy--
My nerves relax--my eyes grow dim--
Who's that fallen--me or him?"
ODE TO PERRY,
THE INVENTOR OF THE STEEL PEN.
THOMAS HOOD
"In this good work, Penn appears the greatest, usefullest of God's
instruments. Firm and unbending when the exigency requires it--soft
and yielding when rigid inflexibility is not a desideratum--fluent and
flowing, at need, for eloquent rapidity--slow and retentive in cases
of deliberation--never spluttering or by amplification going wide of
the mark--never splitting, if it can be helped, with any one, but
ready to wear itself out rather in their service--all things as it
were with all men--ready to embrace the hand of Jew, Christian, or
Mohammedan--heavy with the German, light with the Italian, oblique
with the English, upright with the Roman, backward in coming forward
with the Hebrew--in short, for flexibility, amiability, constitutional
durability, general ability, and universal utility, It would be hard
to find a parallel to the great Penn." --Perry's CHARACTERISATION OF A
SETTLER.
O! Patent Pen-inventing Perrian Perry!
Friend of the goose and gander,
That now unplucked of their quill-feathers wander,
Cackling, and gabbling, dabbling, making merry,
About the happy fen,
Untroubled for one penny-worth of pen,