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RUSTICUS EXPECTANS;

_OR, THE NEW DUMBLEDUMDEARY._

"Rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis; at ille
Labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis ævum."

HORACE.

AIR--"_DUMBLEDUMDEARY_."

In the fall of the year, when M.P.'s were about,
And speeches burst forth like a waterspout,
HODGE took up his bundle, and caught up his staff,
And went for a walk--if you please, don't laugh!--
Singing dumbledumdeary, dumbledumdeary,
Dumble, dumble, dumbledumdee!

Oh, HODGE had put on his bettermost smock,
And wore his billycock gaily a-cock;
For HODGE nowadays is a person of note,
And great Governments bow to the "hind,"--with a vote.
Singing dumbledumdeary, &c.

So he strolled on wi'out dread or fear
Of Squoire or Parson, or County Peer,
For the spouting M.P. and the Liberal Van