Songs and Verses Social and Scientific: By An old contributor to Maga [i.e. Charles Neaves]: Fourth Edition, Enlarged |
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HILLI-ONNEE.
The Whigs can boast of many a name,
Great Normanby and little Johnny;
But far their foremost child of fame
Is he that owns fleet Hilli-onnee.
Great Normanby and little Johnny;
But far their foremost child of fame
Is he that owns fleet Hilli-onnee.
'Mong lords and legs a contest rose
As fierce as e'er was fought with Bonny:
From words, it almost came to blows,
And still the theme was Hilli-onnee.
As fierce as e'er was fought with Bonny:
From words, it almost came to blows,
And still the theme was Hilli-onnee.
And some said this and some said that;
No want there was of caco-phony:
With short and long, with sharp and flat,
They sore misnomered Hilli-onnee.
No want there was of caco-phony:
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They sore misnomered Hilli-onnee.
Then One bethought him of a way
To terminate this acri-mony;
He called as umpire of the fray,
The lord that owns fleet Hilli-onnee.
To terminate this acri-mony;
He called as umpire of the fray,
The lord that owns fleet Hilli-onnee.
His lordship, though a scholar once,
At this appeal was much étonné;
But loath to be esteemed a dunce,
He searched his books for Hilli-onnee.
At this appeal was much étonné;
But loath to be esteemed a dunce,
He searched his books for Hilli-onnee.
No doubt he well remembered yet
Old Sophocles's Hanti-gonnee;
A clearer case he could not get,
Nor more in point for Hilli-onnee.
Old Sophocles's Hanti-gonnee;
A clearer case he could not get,
Nor more in point for Hilli-onnee.
But firmer proofs he sought and found;
The Greeks, disliking mono-tony,
Had accents to direct the sound,
And these showed here 'twas Hilli-onnee.
The Greeks, disliking mono-tony,
Had accents to direct the sound,
And these showed here 'twas Hilli-onnee.
He wrote his answer, brief, yet bright
With classic wit and keen i-rony,
And having quashed the Tories quite,
He taught us all 'twas Hilli-onnee.
With classic wit and keen i-rony,
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He taught us all 'twas Hilli-onnee.
O Peel! your guilt what tongue can tell!
'Twas nothing less than rank fe-lonny,
To oust a lord who talks so well
Of heathen Greek and Hilli-onnee.
'Twas nothing less than rank fe-lonny,
To oust a lord who talks so well
Of heathen Greek and Hilli-onnee.
Had I the might of Pindar's muse
To sing the praise of Palmer-stonny;
The deathless prince of Syracuse
Should yield to him and Hilli-onnee.
To sing the praise of Palmer-stonny;
The deathless prince of Syracuse
Should yield to him and Hilli-onnee.
Pindar, alas! is in his grave;
But this good page of old E-bonny,
For distant days the name shall save
Of Palmer-ston and Hilli-onnee.
But this good page of old E-bonny,
For distant days the name shall save
Of Palmer-ston and Hilli-onnee.
November 1841.
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