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BACHELOR'S FARE.

Composed expressly for this Work by Henry West, R.A.

Fun-ny and free are a ba-che-lor's re-vel-ries; Chee-ri - ly, mer-ri-ly pass-es his life

No-thing knows he of con-nu-bi- al de - vil-ries, Trou-ble-some chil-dren and clam-our-ous

wife.

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Free from sa ti-e ty, care and anx-i-e-ty, Charms in va-ri-e-ty fall to his share :

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Bac-chus's blisses and Ven-us-'s kis-ses;

A wife, like a canister, chattering, clattering,
Tied to a dog for his torment and dread,
All bespattering, bumping, and battering,

Hurries and worries him till he is dead;

Old ones are two devils haunted with blue devils,
Young ones are new devils raising despair;
Doctors and nurses combining their curses,
Adieu to full purses and bachelor's fare.
Through such folly, days once sweet holydays
Soon are embitter'd by wrangling and strife:
Wives turn jolly days to melancholy days,
All perplexing and vexing one's life;

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This, boys, this is the ba che lor's fare.
Children are riotous, maid-servants fly at ns,
Mammy to quiet us growls like a bear;
Polly is squalling, and Molly is bawling.
While dad is recalling his bachelor's fare.
When they are older grown, then they are bolder
grown,

Turning your temper, and spurning your rule:
Girls, through foolishness, passion, or mulishness,
Parry your wishes and marry a fool.

Boys wi anticipate, lavish, and dissipate,

All that your busy pate hoarded with care;Then tell me what jollity, fun, and frivolity, Equal ir quality bachelor's fare?

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NEW ZEALANDER'S BATTLE-SONG.

The Poetry translated from the German of Burger; the Music by Samatheni.

Hal-lo, ye my fel-lows, a - rise and advance! See the white-crest-ed waves, how they stamp and they

At home, wives and children a hearth for us lay;
A savory flesh-feast awaits us to-day.
Behind yonder mountains e'en now the smoke

streams,

dance, High o-ver the reef there, with anger and might! So wild-ly we dance to the bloody - red fight. Then gather! now gather! come, gather, ye all! Each thing that hath limbs and arms, come at our call! [sweeps by, Like reeds on the moor, when the whirlwind Our lances and war-axes darken the sky. Sharp, sharp as the tooth of the sea-hound and shark, [mark! They'll bore ye, they'll split ye. Fly, lance, to the Home, home to the heart! And thou, battle-axe grim, [and limb! Split, splintering and shivering, through brain-pan To-day we ask vengeance, to-day we ask blood; We ask it; we're coming to make our word good; The storm flinches not, though the woods choke

its path;

We ask it; we're coming; beware of our wrath!

And the blaze of the brush-fire crackles and gleams.
Long, long have we hunger'd and thirsted for you;
At home the dogs lurk round the clean table, too.
Loud-shouting, we eat you to-night, every one,
Devour you clean, to the white ringing tone.
Rush, rush, ye my fellows, rush on them like hail!
Soon, soon, shall their roasting your nostrils re-
gale;

a-glow!

The fire is flaring; the oven
Heave to, now! hew through now! Halloha! hallo!

Andantino.

THE ECHOES.

The Words by William Ball; the Music by Weber.

Far in the wild wood, Deep in yon dell, Haunt of my child-hood, Sweet e-choes

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The call and the pleasure, Of Echo's reply!

The soul of that pleasure, What shall restore?

Mine is the treasure,

Oh, never more!

THE KING AND THE JACKETS OF BLUE.
The Words by Douglas Jerrold; the Music by J. Blewitt.

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first to sip The sweets, the sweets, that hung up on the lip Of Faithless Espres. a tempo.

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wife, a smil-ing babe to fold, Whose hap-less fa-ther, dis-tant far, a wa-t'ry grave may

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dis-tant far, a wa-t'ry grave may Who would not be a sailor's wife, when, storm and tempest o'er,

To see him haste across the green, and reach his cottage door?

hold, a wa-t'ry grave may hold?

Who would not be a sailor's wife, while tears of transport start,

To hear his voice, to see him smile, and clasp him to her heart?

THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER.

The Poetry translated from the Getinan by Uhland; the Music of T. Schubert.

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Three stu-dents were tra-vel-ling o-ver the Rhine; They stopp'd when they came to the

land- la-dy's sign; Good land-la-dy, have you good beer and wine? And where is that

dear lit-tle daugh-ter of thine? And where 'My beer and wine are fresh and clear: My daughter she lies on the cold death-bier!' And when to the chamber they made their way, There, dead, in a coal-black shrine, she lay. The first he drew near, and the veil gently rais'd, And on her pale face he mournfully gaz'd: 'Ah! wert thou but living yet,' he said, 'I'd love thee from this time forth, fair maid!'

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THE PRAIRIE LEA.

The Poetry by Dr. J. K. Mitchell.-The Music composed by Joseph Philip Knight. Moderato.

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plea-sure calls to Ma-ry's bow'r: hark, hark, hark! Plea-sure calls, pleasure

calls, pleasure calls to Mary's Jow-er; plea-sure calls to Mary's bow'r.

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I took my seat, and 'gainst the tide he row'd away in shore; [stant roar ; The song begun at Ratcliff Cross was now a conFor ev'ry plying-place we pass'd, the boys their voices lent [vent.'

To hail us, as we row'd along, with 'over-board he Singing, pull away, &c.

The waterman he row'd and swore, and look'd with augry eyes,—

lie wish'd their noisy tongues were tied, to stop their stupid cries;

I wonder'd what it was about, and ask'd him what they meant, [vent.' By calling, as he row'd along, 'and over board he Singing, pull away, &c. Says he, I'm call'd Ned Topper, and I ply at Fountain Stairs; [such airs, A wicked nephew I have got, that gives himself That, one day in a wrathful mood, to strike him I [I vent.' The cunning dog he step'd aside, 'and over boar Singing, pull away, &c.

was bent;

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