LINES. TO A LADY ON HER DEPARTURE FOR INDIA. Go where the waves run rather Holborn-hilly, And think of me! Go where the mild Madeira ripens her juice- Go where the Tiger in the darkness prowleth, Go where the serpent dangerously coileth, Go where with human notes the Parrot dealeth Go to the land of muslin and nankeening, And think of me! 218 Go to the land of Jungles and of vast hills, Go where a cook must always be a currier, Go where the maiden on a marriage plan goes, Go where the sun is very hot and fervent, Go to the land of pagod and rupee, Where every black will be your slave and servant, And think of me! SONNET. ALONG the Woodford road there comes a noise 219 DECEMBER AND MAY. "Crabbed Age and Youth cannot live together." SHAKSPEARE. SAID Nestor, to his pretty wife, quite sorrowful one day, Why, dearest, will you shed in pearls those lovely eyes away? You ought to be more fortified;"-" Ah, brute, be quiet, do, I know I'm not so fortyfied, nor fiftyfied, as you! Oh, men are vile deceivers all, as I have ever heard, You'd die for me, you swore, and I-I took you at your word. I was a tradesman's widow then-a pretty change I've made; To live, and die the wife of one, a widower by trade!" "Come, come, my dear, these flighty airs declare, in sober truth, You want as much in age, indeed, as I can want in youth; Besides, you said you liked old men, though now at me you huff." "Why, yes," she said, "and so I do-but you're not old enough!" "Come, come, my dear, let's make it up, and have a quiet I'll be the best of men-I mean-I'll be the best alive! more !" 220 MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL'S. THE man that pays and goes Looks over London's naked nose, The world is all beneath his ken, He sits above the Ball. He seems on Mount Olympus' top, Among the Gods, by Jupiter! and lets drop His eyes from the empyreal clouds On mortal crowds. Seen from these skies, How small those emmets in our eyes Some carry little sticks-and one And bustle! And there's my aunt. So long and thin, And so pinched in, Just in the pismire taste. ! I know her by her waist, Oh! what are men ?-Beings so small, That, should I fall Upon their little heads, I must Crush them by hundreds into dust! And what is life? and all its ages— There's seven stages! Turnham Green! Chelsea! Putney! Fulham! And Tooting, too! And oh what very little nags to pull 'em. Yet each would seem a horse indeed, If here at Paul's tip-top we 'd got 'em; Although, like Cinderella's breed, They're mice at bottom. Then let me not despise a horse, Though he looks small from Paul's high-cross! Since he would be-as near the sky Fourteen hands high. What is this world with London in its lap? The Thames, that ebbs and flows in its broad channel? A tidy kennel. The bridges stretching from its banks? Stone planks. Oh me! hence could I read an admonition But that he would not listen to my call, A VALENTINE. OH! cruel heart! ere these posthumous papers Ah! when those eyes, like tapers, burned so blue, For I am half a sprite-a ghost elect; |