PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 101.



September 19, 1891.




[Illustration: OFF DUTY.

_The "Daily Graphic" Weather-Young-Woman gets her "Sundays out."_]

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SILENCE AND SLEEP.

(_LINES WRITTEN AT COCK-CROW._)

Night-time and silence! O'er the brooding hill
The last faint whisper of the zephyr dies;
Meadows and trees and lanes are hushed and still,
A shroud of mist on the slow river lies;
And the tall sentry poplars silent keep
Their lonely vigil in a world of sleep.