plant is the Ivy green,

36 A Christmas Carol.
I care not for Spring, 42 Gabriel Grub’s Song.
Brave lodgings for one, 48 Romance (Sam Weller’s Song).
Bold Turpin vunce, on Hounslow Heath, 53   The Examiner (1841), 57 The Fine Old English Gentleman.
I’ll sing you a new ballad, 59 The Quack Doctor’s Proclamation.
An astonishing doctor has just come to town, 67 Subjects for Painters.
To you, Sir Martin, 73   The Patrician’s Daughter (1842), 79 Prologue.
No tale of streaming plumes and harness bright, 81   The Keepsake (1844), 87 A Word in Season.
They have a superstition in the East, 89   The Daily News (1846), 93 The British Lion.
Oh, p’r’aps you may have heard, 95 The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers.
Oh God, who by Thy Prophet’s hand, 101   Lines addressed to Mark Lemon (1849), 107 New Song.
Lemon is a little hipped, 109   The Lighthouse (1855), 113 Prologue.
A story of those rocks where doom’d ships come, 115 The Song of the Wreck.
The wind blew high, the waters raved, 119   The Frozen Deep (1856), 125 Prologue.
One savage footprint on the lonely shore, 127   The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856), 131 A Child’s Hymn.
Hear my prayer, O! Heavenly Father, 133

 

 

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SONGS, CHORUSES,
AND CONCERTED PIECES FROM
‘THE VILLAGE COQUETTES’
A COMIC OPERA
1836

 

THE VILLAGE COQUETTES

About the year 1834, when the earliest of the Sketches by Boz were appearing in print, a young composer named John Hullah set to music a portion of an opera called The Gondolier, which he thought might prove successful on the stage. Twelve months later Hullah became acquainted with Charles Dickens, whose name was then unknown to those outside his own immediate circle, and it occurred to him that he and ‘Boz’ might combine their forces by converting The Gondolier into a popular play. Dickens, who