Forget thee! No! my worthy fere!
Forget blithe mirth and gallant cheer!
Death sooner stretch me on my bier!
Forget thee? No.

Forget the universal shout
When " canny Sunderland" spoke out:
A truth which knaves affect to doubt:
Forget thee? No.

Forget you? No: though nowaday
I 've heard your knowing people say,
" Disown the debt you cannot pay,
You 'll find it far the thriftiest way" —
But I? — O no.

Forget your kindness found for all room,
In what, though large, seemed still a small room,
Forget my Surtees in a ball-room:
Forget you? No.

Forget your sprightly dumpty-diddles,
And beauty tripping to the fiddles,
Forget my lovely friends the Liddells:
Forget you? No.