(“This Ancient Silver Bowl Of Mine.”)

ON LENDING A PUNCHBOWL.

|This ancient silver bowl of mine--it tells of good old times.

Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas chimes;

They were a free and jovial race, but honest, brave and true,

That dipped their ladle in the punch when this old bowl was new.=

A Spanish galleon brought the bar--so runs the ancient tale--

Twas hammered by an Antwerp smith, whose arm was like a flail;

And now and then between the strokes, for fear his strength should fail,

He wiped his brow, and quaffed a cup of good old Flemish ale.=

'Twas purchased by an English squire to please his loving dame,

Who saw the cherubs, and conceived a longing for the same;