Faith lives in Life, but Fear's most vigorous breath
Lives "in the sure and certain hope"--of Death!
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RESIGNATION.
"Fire! Fire!"
"Where? where?'
SHAW's resigned.
Then find
Another one!
Many gone?
Fire! Where?
Here's a scare!!
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[Illustration: A NEW WAY OF PAYING CHURCH DEBTS.
(_Vide "Liverpool Daily Post," July 23 1891._)]
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UPON A GLOVE.
(_AFTER THE FASHION--MORE OR LESS--OF HERRICK._)
Oh, limp and leathery type of Social Sham,
And Legislative Flam!
Which cunning CUNNINGHAME and MATTHEWS cool
(Both prompt to play the fool,
In free-lance fashion or official form)
Prattled of, 'midst a storm
Of crackling laughter, and ironic cheers,
And sniggering, "Hear, hears!"--
Thou summest well the humbug of our lives.
The fistic "bunch of fives"
Is not like JULIA's jewelled "palm of milk"
Shrouded in kid or silk,
But JULIA was a sensuous little "sell,"
And SMITH and PRITCHARD--well,
One would not like a clump upon the head
From the teak-noddled "TED,"
Or e'en a straight sockdollager from "JEM;"
But somehow "bhoys" like them,
Who mill three rounds to an uproarious "house,"
And only nap "a mouse,"
Though one before the end of the third bout
Is clean "knocked out,"--
Such burly, brawny buffetters for hire,
Who in ten minutes tire,
And clutch the ropes, and turn a Titan back
To shun the impending thwack,--
Such "Champions" smack as much of trick and pelf
As venal JULIA's self.
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