THE HEAVY DRAGOON.

If you want a receipt for that popular mystery

Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon,

Take all the remarkable people in history,

Rattle them off to a popular tune!

The pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory —

Genius of Bismarck devising a plan;

The humor of Fielding ( which sounds contradictory ) —

Coolness of Paget about to trepan —

The grace of Mozart, that unparalleled musico —

Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne —

The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault —

Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man —

The dash of a D'Orsay, divested of quackery —

Narrative powers of Dickens and Thackeray

Victor Emmanuel — peak-haunting Peveril —

Thomas Aquinas, and Doctor Sacheverell —

Tupper and Tennyson — Daniel Defoe —

Anthony Trollope and Mister Guizot!

Take of these elements all that are fusible,

Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible,

Set them to simmer and take off the scum,

And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum!

If you want a receipt for this soldierlike paragon,

Get at the wealth of the Czar ( if you can ) —

The family pride of a Spaniard from Arragon —

Force of Mephisto pronouncing a ban —

A smack of Lord Waterford, reckless and rollicky —

Swagger of Roderick, heading his clan —

The keen penetration of Paddington Pollaky —

Grace of an Odalisque on a divan —

The genius strategic of Cæsar or Hannibal —

Skill of Lord Wolseley in thrashing a cannibal

Flavor of Hamlet — the Stranger, a touch of him —

Little of Manfred, ( but not very much of him ) —

Beadle of Burlington — Richardson's show;

Mr. Micawber and Madame Tussaud!

Take of these elements all that are fusible,

Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible,

Set them to simmer and take off the scum,

And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum!