The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/To Thomas Moore (2)
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TO THOMAS MOORE.
What are you doing now,
Oh Thomas Moore?
What are you doing now,
Oh Thomas Moore?
Sighing or suing now,
Rhyming or wooing now,
Billing or cooing now,
Which, Thomas Moore?
But the Carnival 's coming,
Oh Thomas Moore!
The Carnival 's coming,
Oh Thomas Moore!
Masking and humming,
Fifing and drumming,
Guitarring and strumming,
Oh Thomas Moore!
December 24, 1816.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 58, 59.]
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 58, 59.]