University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Miscellaneous writings of the late Dr. Maginn

edited by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie

expand sectionI. 
expand sectionII. 
collapse sectionIV. 
expand section 
expand sectionV. 


245

Song of a Fallen Angel over a Bowl of Rum-Punch.

By T. M., Esq.
Heap on more coal there,
And keep the glass moving,
The frost nips my nose,
Though my heart glows with loving.
Here's the dear creature,
No skylights—a bumper;
He who leaves heeltaps
I vote him a mumper.
With hey cow rumble O
Whack! populorum,
Merrily, merry men,
Push round the jorum.
What are Heaven's pleasures
That so very sweet are?
Singing from psalters,
In long or short metre.
Planked on a wet cloud
Without any breeches,
Just like the Celtic,
Met to make speeches.
With hey cow rumble, &c.
Wide is the difference,
My own boozing bullies,
Here the round punch-bowl
Heap'd to the full is.
Then if some wise one
Thinks that up “yonder”
Is pleasant as we are,
Why—he's in a blunder.
With hey cow rumble, &c.