le's shade.

Her solace is the Minstrel's: _I'd_ Let slide
My flocks of verse without a guide.
So will they best return without A doubt--
Or tale that mortal can make out.

MISS MUFFET.

So sweet!
Child-Innocence, with upward-curling feet
On buffet-seat,
Resolving (as we all resolve) to eat.
So sad!
The ravening Spider from his eyrie mad
Swoops, boldly bad,
And scares (as spiders scare) the Pure and Glad.

ON A KLEPTOMANIAC.

Ah, Violin Cremonian!
Ah, Pussy-cat of Ispahan!
Moo-cow that dost outmoon the moon!
Yes, dainty poodle, laugh away,
And mock the pranks poor mortals play
Who spoon the dish and dish the spoon!

* * * * *

TO THE QUEEN OF MAYS.

Give me an elfin, frolic MAY,
No Queen with hoarse cadenzas,
Who pipes a frozen roundelay
Of spiteful influenzas.

_My_ MAY shall air no voices crude.
No chained and chilly dances--
With wordless harmonies endued
And pirouetting fancies.

She'll draw us round no Northern Poles
With crowns of mimic roses.
That mock our sad sepulchral souls
And counterfeit our noses.

But white as hawthorn blossom, free
As air to shed her pleasures,
_My_ mute, melodious MAY shall be
The soul of wayward measures.

To put it plainly, while the ban
Of Spring on us and gales is,
I'll bask and smile and worship JEANNE
Within the Prince of Wales's.

* * * * *

CONSERVATIVE COMMENT ON A RECENT ELECTION (_after Mr.
Middlewick_).--"Humph! Inferior Dosset!"

* * * * *

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