NO. 2. NIGHT AND MORNING.
They brought to my couch (I had not slept a wink,
For brooding all night on my ills)
A neat-looking bottle of something to drink.
And a neat-looking box full of pills.
A neat-looking label attracted my sight,
The neck of the bottle adorning,
Saying, "Please to take two of the pills every night
And a sixth of the draught in the morning."
After slowly perusing these words once or twice,
In a deeply contemplative way,
I exclaim'd, what a volume of useful advice
Does this one little sentence convey!
My friends, though to-day may seem cloudless and bright,
Neglect not to-morrow's dark warning;
And oh! while you 're taking the pills of to-night,
Forget not the draught in the morning!