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THE POKER AND THE TONGS.

One night beside the ingle-nook
The Poker and the Tongs
Sang merrily and cheerily
Their silly little songs:
“Full many a year we’ve dwelt it here
In joyous company ;
The Andirons tho’ they brightly shine
_. Are not more gay than we.
What tho’ we seem of somber hue
And somewhat dull when, lo!

Beside. us both the cviling log,

The living coal, doth glow.
Association is the half
Of life for each and all,
And quite the best of this we have
Whatever else befall.”
So, there beside the ingle-nook,
The Poker and the Tongs
Sang merrily and cheerily
Their silly little songs.