THE LEGEND OF THE BRIAR-ROOT.

(Suggestion for companion subject to "The Briar Rose," by E. Burne-Jones, A.R.A., now exhibiting at Messrs. Agnew & Sons' Gallery, Bond Street.)

The Briar-Wood Pipe.
Effect on the Smokers.
The fateful odour fumes and goes
About the angle of the Nose.
The Bed-Room.
They smoked and smoked a pipe a-piece:
Thus did their drowsiness increase.
Short Cut through the Garden.
The Maidens thought the pipe to fill:
They smoked, and now they all lie still.
The Nose Bower. La Belle Pipe-en-Bois Dormant.
'Twas five o'clock, the hour of tea;
But, having smoked, they're as you see.