They never met without a fight Which threatened both their lives. LOCAL LYKICS. 57 In turn the wily King expressed His deep aud earnest interest In each religious plan, This made those shepherds tiercely rave, And strive more eagerly to save So tractable a man. But still that savage winked aud winked Till both the rivals were extinct. Worn out by constant frays ; And when they neatly were entombed, He heaved a sigli, and straight resumed His old disgraceful ways. CONNECTED WITH TEADE. By a Heavy Swell. () Fortune, thy favours are oft sbowered down On beings who move in the humblest sphei-e ; While the nobly born are looked on with a fi-own, And seek, sometimes in vain, for a copper for beer. Why is it, O Fortune, confound you, explain Wliy the humblest mortals thy darlings are made, When I, their superior, woo thee in vain — I, a man who was never connected with trade P There are radical villains who venture to say That I ought to ea7-n money, to wear labour's gyves ;