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[Illustration: FANCY PORTRAIT.]
OUR GRAND YOUNG GARDNER (HERBERT II.),
IN HIS NEW CHARACTER OF THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE.
(_With Song_)--"_Here's to the Health of the Parley Mow_!"
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SONNET ON CHILLON.
(_WHERE THE ELECTRIC LIGHT IS NOW INSTALLED IN THE DUNGEON OF
BONIVARD._)
Electric lighting, dear to modern mind,
Bright in this dungeon! Switzerland, thou art
Too mad for things quite _fin-de-siecle_ smart!
Surely the trains, that rumble just behind,
And Vevey tramcars, in my thoughts consigned
To even hotter place, had been enough
To scare SAND, HUGO, SHELLEY, in a huff;
Make BYRON cast his poem to the wind!
Chillon, thy prison may become a place
With little marble tables in a row,
Where tourists, dressed with artless English grace,
May drink their _bock_ or _cafe_ down below,
And foreign penknives rapidly efface
The boasted names this light is meant to show.
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MUSICAL NOTE.--The most tranquillising, or even somniferous melodies
ever composed, must have been those written by the celebrated LULLI.
The first thing by LULLI was a "_Lulliby_."
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NEW WORDS TO AN OLD TUNE (AND A SYLLABLE TO SPARE).--Song for the
SECRETARY for IRELAND:--"_'Tis all for good luck, quoth bould Rory
O'Mor-ley.
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