HUNTING SONGS 



V 



Forget not that other Red Jacket, 



Turn'd up with green laurel and bay ! 

 The tri-colour'd banners that back jt ! 



The might of their mingled array ! 

 Forget not the deeds that unite 'em 



As comrades, though rivals in fame ; 

 But fill to the brim that quassitum 



Which Friendship and Chivalry claim. 

 1855. 



A Remonstrance on Lord Sta?ileys Sugges- 

 tion that the Session of Parliame7it should 

 be held during the Winter Months. 



JOY ! when November bids our sport begin. 

 When ringing echoes through the vale resound, 



When light of heart we to the saddle bound. 

 And health and pleasure from the pastime win. 

 These must I barter for the Senate's din ? 



Fcego the music of the tuneful hound 



For midnight rant in adverse clamour drown'd ? 

 Lay by the whip to be myself whipp'd in ? 

 Debaters ! listen, while the Chace propounds 



Her precepts — words too many work delay ; 

 Your babblers draft, as we our tonguey hounds ; 

 Rate without mercy those who riot run ; 



Let those speak only who have ought to say. 

 Speak to the point, and stop when they have done. 



1855. 

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