┌─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │1835.] │ APRIL. │ ├─────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ Opera open—Town fills— │ │ │ Old fools dance quadrilles— │ │ │Paganini's fiddle-de-D— │ │ │The D— once fiddled a guinea from me— │ │ │Crockford's splendid Saturday Dinners— │ │ │Sunday—"Miserable sinners!" │ ├──┬──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────┤ │ M│ Season's │ =Odd Matters.= │ WEATHER. │ │ D│ Signs. │ │ │ ├──┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┤ │ 1│growing │ │ If it be │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 2│showers │ APRIL RHYMES. │ neither │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 3│springing │Rhymes for April—let me sing │ ♄ ♊ ♌ ☿ ⚹ │ │ │ │The pleasures of returning spring. │ │ │ 4│flowers │ │ warm │ │ │ │ I wish, in verse the lines ran single, │ │ │ 5│hot │'Tis tiresome, hunting words that jingle, │ nor cold, │ │ │ │ │ wet │ │ │ │And just as hard, in any season, │ │ │ 6│cross │To furnish either rhyme or reason: │ nor dry, │ │ │ │For showers, and bowers, and buds of │ │ │ │ │ roses, │ │ │ 7│bunn │Nights, and blights, and blue cold noses, │ ♂ ☉ ☌ ☍ │ │ │ │Beams and gleams, and flow'rets springing,│ │ │ 8│day │Feather'd warblers, winging, singing, │ calm │ │ │ │Hills and rills, and groves and loves, │ │ │ 9│Easter │Wooing, cooing, turtle-doves, │ nor storm; │ │ │ │Shades and glades, and larks and thrushes,│ │ │10│Monday │Chilly grass, and dripping bushes, │ and │ │ │ │Are soon a poor exhausted store;— │ │ │11│what a │I'll try a city theme for more. │ │ │ │ │ │ ⚹ ♊ ♄ ☉ │ │12│fun │ Judges, fudges, wigs, and prigs, │ │ │ │ │In coaches, busses, cabs, and gigs, │ there be │ │13│day! │Dripping, tripping, slipping, slopping, │ │ │ │ │Pink silk stockings go a-shopping; │ neither │