ON A PICTURE OF HERO AND LEANDER.
By T. Hood.
Why, Lover, why
Such a water-rover?
Would she love thee more
For coming half seas over?
Why, Lady, why
So in love with dipping?
Must a lad of Greece
Come all over dripping?
Why, Cupid, why
Make the passage brighter?
Were not any boat
Better than a lighter?
Why, Maiden, why
So intrusive standing?
Must thou be on the stair,
When he's on the landing?
The Gem.
On a tombstone in the churchyard of Christchurch, Hants, is the following curious inscription, which I copied on the spot. Perhaps some of your numerous readers can explain the same:—
WE WERE NOT SLAYNE BVT RAYSD
RAYSD NOT TO LIFE
BVT TO BE BVRIED TWICE
BY MEN OF STRIFE
WHAT REST COVLD'TH LIVING HAVE
WHEN DEAD HAD NONE
AGREE AMONGST YOV
HERE WE TEN ARE ONE
HEN: ROGERS DIED APRILL 17, 1641.
I R.