THE Youth at eve had drunk his fill,
Where stands the "Royal" on the Hill,
And long his mid-day stroll had made,
On the so-called " Marine Parade"-
(Meant, I presume, for Seamen brave,
Whose "march is on the Mountain wave"
'Twere just the bathing-place for him
Who stays on land till he can swim-)
And he had strayed into the Town,
And paced each alley up and down,
Where still, so narrow grew the way,
The very houses seemed to say,
Nodding to friends across the Street,
"One struggle more and we shall meet"
　And he had scaled that wondrous stair
That soars from earth to upper air,
Where rich and poor alike must climb,
And walk the treadmill for a time.
That morning he had dressed with care,
And put Pomatum on his hair;
He was, the loungers all agreed,
A very heavy swell indeed:
Men thought him, as he swaggered by,
Some scion of nobility,
And never dreamed, so cold his look,
That he had loved- and loved a Cook.
Upon the beach he stood and sighed
Unheedful of the treacherous tide;
Thus sang he to the listening main,
And soothed his sorrow with the strain


　　　　　Coronach

" She is gone by the Hilda,
　　She is lost unto Whitby,
And her name is Matilda,
　　Which my heart it was smit by,
Tho' I take the Goliah,
　　I learn to my sorrow
that 'it won'nt', said the crier,
　　'Be off till to-morrow'

"She called me her 'Neddy'
　　(Tho' there mayn't be much in it,)
And I should have been ready ,
　　If she'd waited a mimute;
I was following behind her
　　When,if you recollect,I
Merely ran back to find a
　　Gold pin for my neck-tie.

Rich dresser of suet!
　　Prime hand at a sausage
I have lost thee, I rue it,
　　And my fare for the passage!
Perhaps she thinks it funny,
　　Aboard of the Hilda,
But I've lost purse and money
　　And thee, oh, my"Tilda!"

His pin of gold the youth undid
And in his waistcoat-pocket hid,
Then gently folfed hand in hand,
And dropped asleep upon the sand.