Living
Jack Campbell! If Few Are
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Jack Campbell! if few are
So stealthy as you are,
Pew steal with so honest a face:
But recollect, when
You pluck a fresh pen,
That where the soil's richest is deepest the trace.
Beware lest Macaulay,
Hard-fisted, should maul ye
When he catches you sucking his Bacon.
At Lister's church -yard
There is station'd no guard;
Creep over; his spoils may be taken.
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