His partners at the whist-club said

Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the speaker.

And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.

John Bull was beat at Waterloo! They’ll swear to that in France.

She was our queen, our rose, our star; And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!

Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I’m sure he’s a talented man.

I remember, I remember How my childhood fleeted by,— The mirth of its December And the warmth of its July.