TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ.,
MANAGER OF THE PARK THEATRE.57
ear Simpson, since the day is near
Destined to close your late campaign,
’Tis well to greet the coming year,
And learn how best you may appear
Before the public eye again.
One thing, at least, whate’er you do,
For Heaven’s sake give us something new!
For though your actors have not lost
One lightning-flash of Thespian fire,
Yet beauties that delight us most,
The wearied eye, in time, will tire.
’Tis thus the sated gaze of taste
Holland’s58 drop-curtain heedless passes;
And thus the schoolboy loathes at last
His sugar-candy and molasses.
Now, if you will but take advice,
Bank-notes shall fall like summer rain,
And next year you and Mr. Price
May cut your cider for champagne.
Just hand your present corps down-stairs,
Disband them all, and then create
