A Hymn Of Welcome After The Recess.

"animas sapientiores fieri quiescendo."     And now-cross-buns and pancakes o'er--     Hail, Lords and Gentlemen, once more!         Thrice hail and welcome, Houses Twain!     The short eclipse of April-Day     Having (God grant it!) past away,         Collective Wisdom, shine again!     Come, Ayes and Noes, thro' thick and thin,--     With Paddy Holmes for whipper-in,--         Whate'er the job, prepared to back it;     Come, voters of Supplies--bestowers     Of jackets upon trumpet-blowers,         At eighty mortal pounds the jacket![1]     Come--free, at length, from Joint-Stock cares--     Ye Senators of many Shares,         Whose dreams of premium knew no boundary;     So fond of aught like Company,     That you would even have taken tea         (Had you been askt) with Mr. Goundry.[2]     Come, matchless country-gentlemen;     Come, wise Sir Thomas--wisest then         When creeds and corn-lords are debated;     Come, rival even the Harlot Red,     And show how wholly into bread         A 'Squire is transubstantiated,     Come, Lauderdale, and tell the world,     That--surely as thy scratch is curled         As never scratch was curled before--     Cheap eating does more harm than good,     And working-people spoiled by food,         The less they eat, will work the more.     Come, Goulburn, with thy glib defence     (Which thou'dst have made for Peter's Pence)         Of Church-rates, worthy of a halter;     Two pipes of port (old port, 'twas said     By honest Newport)[3] bought and paid         By Papists for the Orange Altar![4]     Come, Horton, with thy plan so merry     For peopling Canada from Kerry--         Not so much rendering Ireland quiet,     As grafting on the dull Canadians     That liveliest of earth's contagions,         The bull-pock of Hibernian riot!     Come all, in short, ye wondrous men     Of wit and wisdom, come again;         Tho' short your absence, all deplore it--     Oh, come and show, whate'er men say,     That you can after April-Day,         Be just as--sapient as before it.