THE OLD FOGIES, F.,5.,A.
(Dedicated to the three old bachelors. ) I.
We three Old fogies be. Tiie crow's foot crawls, the wrinkle comes, Our heads grow bare Of the bonnie brown hail 1 , Our teeth grow shaky in our gums. Gone are the joys that once we knew, Over the green, and under the blue ; Our blood runs cold as cold can be, And we're old fogies -fogies three.
11. Jolly companions, three times three ! Let us confess what fools we be ! We eat more dinner than hunger craves ; "We drink our passage to early graves ; And fill, and swill, till our foieheals burst, For sake of the wine, and not of the thirst. Jolly companions, three times tlnee ! Let us confess what fools we be 1
in. We toil and moil from morn till night, Slaves and drudges in health's despite, Gathering and scraping painful gold, To hoard and garner till we're old : And die, mayhap, in middle prime, Loveless, joyless, all our time, Jolly coini<airions, three times three ! Let us confess what fools we be !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 160, 2 March 1871, Page 7
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177THE OLD FOGIES, F.,5.,A. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 160, 2 March 1871, Page 7
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