On seeing BRET HARTE come upon the Bench.
Thanks for an hour of laughing
In a world that is growing old;
Thanks for an hour of weeping
In a world that is growing cold;
For we who have wept with Dickens,
And we who have laughed with Boz,
Have renewed the days of our childhood
With his American Coz.
Impromptu In The Assize Court, Nottingham,
Horace Smith
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