(_On his Seventieth Birthday._)
To MANNS of Crystal Palace fame,
_Punch_ sends his kindly greeting.
The ever keen, the never tame,
Time may he long be beating
(For Time it seems cannot beat him).
Time's darts may he resist all
With _bâton_ brisk and eyes un-dim.
Beneath that dome of Crystal--
For many a year! And decades hence
_Punch_ hopes it may befa' that
He'll shout, before that choir immense,
"A _Manns'_ a Man for a' that!"
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A CLASSIC CANDIDATE.--Mr. HOMER in West Dorset is the Independent
Farmers' Candidate. He is, of course, more than a positive "Home
Ruler," being a comparative hopeful "HOMER Ruler." But surely the
language of HOMER must be Greek to most of his hearers, even at
Bridport, and in view of the _poluphoisboio thalasses_.
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