POETRY. -

From the Reading Gazette.
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rom the heaoinS ddeSuS'


OLD BACHELORS.
They are wanderers and rambers--never al noms'
Making sure of a welcome wherever tney roam,
And every one knows that he Bachelors den, .
Is room set apart for thesesingular mem
A nook in the clouds, of some five feet by FOUR
Though sometimes, by chance it may be rather
more.


With skyligh or no light ghosts, goblins, q gloop',
And every where termed "the Old Bachelors
roonn."


These creatures, they say, are not valued al an,
Except when the herd give Bachelors Ball.
Then drest in their best,
In their gold broidered vest,


1t is known fact
That they act with much tact, S
And they lisp, /" How dye do 90


Aud the{ coo, and they woor


And they smile, for while,
p. Their fair guests to beguile;


Condesceuding, and bending,
For fear of offending.


Though insert, And they spy,
They exert With their eye,
Tobe pert, And they sigh,
And TO firt. As they fly.


And they whisk and they whiz,


And are brisk when they quiz. .
For they meet, AdVanclng,


Tobe sweet, AND SianclhS,
And are feet, And dancing,
On their feet, And granting,
Sliding and gliding with minuet pace,
Promoting and Setting with infinite grace.
And iunpino. And racing,


And humping And chasing,
And stumping. And pacing,
- And humping, And lacing,
They are ffitteling and gttering gallant and gay,
Yawuing all morning, and lounging all day.


But when he grows old,


And his Sunshine is past,


Three score years being told,


Brings repentance at last.
He then becomes an odd old man.,
His warmest friends the warming pan;
He's fdgety, fretful and weary ; in fine,
Loves nothing but self and his dinner & wine.


He rates and he prates,


And reads the debates:
Despised by the men, and the women he hates.
Then prosing, And poring'
And DOING, And snoring,
And boxing, 4 And boring
And uosing. And roaring.
When e'er he falls In with rabble


His delight is to vapor and gable;
He's gruhY, Anu musty,
And puffy, And tusty,
He sits in his slippers. with back TO the door,
.. Near freezing, And grumbHng,
And wheeling, And mumbling,
And teazipg, And stumbling,
And sneezing, And tunbling,
He curses the cal pet or nails IN the floor.
Oft falling, Oft waking.
Oft bawling Off aching,
And sprawng, And quaklng,
And crawling, And shaking,
His hand is unsteady, his stomach is sore.
He's railing, UncheeTy,
And failing, And dreary, |
And affing, And weary,


And groaning and moaning, -


His selfshness owning, ~
Gneving and heaTing,


Though nought is he leaving,


But pef and Ill heallb


Himself and his wealth.
He sends for doctor to cure TO kill,
Who gives him advice, and offence and pill
Who drops him hint about making his will
As fretful antiquity cannot be mended,
The miserable life Of bachelors ended.
Nobody misses him, nobody sighs,
Nobody grieves when the bachelor dies.