Alfred de Rosann by G.W.M. Reynolds — page 43: what you’re looking at

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30 Alfred de Rosann. To welcome in the morning, Around the board we'll stay ; And when the light is dawning, To bed we'll haste away. The Mussulman in festive hour— The midnight robber arm’d to slay— The poet in his mistress’ bower— The trav’ller on his lonely way— Their blessings shed On Bacchus’ head, And quaff the bow! with laughter gay : The rich—the poor The God adore, And constant own his potent sway. To welcome in the morning, Around the board we'll stay ; And when the light is dawning, To bed we’ll haste away. In wine and women every ill Originates—so priests declare : But we will drain the goblet still, And then to love a moment spare. Our fervent boast Shall be the toast That tells the praise of woman fair ; The brimming bowl Can cheer the soul, And love defy th’ advance of care. To welcome in the morning, Around the board we'll stay ; And when the light is dawning, To bed we'll haste away. ‘Many a time have I sung that picasant stave to a host of good fellows,” observed Belle-Rose, as he brought the strain to a conclu- sion. ‘I learnt it from a prince of a companion at the board, and one who was rather famous in his way. He accompanied me to Toulon some time ago—we were re-inforced by him and a dozen others at Lyons—and there he is now for any thing that I know.” ‘¢ What was he condemned for?” enquired a convict. ‘‘ For the small mistake he made about the old ruin in the neigh- bourhood of Lyons, you know,” answered Belle-Rose. ‘*T cannot say that I recollect the circumstance,’ other. ‘Then I will recall it to your memory,’’ continued the facetious and talkative Pierre. ‘‘ You must remember that at a little distance from Lyons are the remains of a very old castle, which formerly belonged to some ancient family whose name I have forgotten. At the present moment the four bare walls are alone standing; and a poor farmer some years ago became proprietor of them together with the half-acre of land upon which they are situate. One day a gentleman called upon the farmer and offered to purchase the ruins and the space of ground they occupy, asserting that he was a distant connexion of the family from which the property had passed away, and that he was 9 observed the COnicbooolks (GO)