Thought (what in state affairs is most essential),

That they as easily might do the youngster,

As hawks may pounce upon a woodland songster.

XXXVI.

They erred, as agéd men will do; but by

And by we'll talk of that; and if we don't,

'T will be because our notion is not high

Of politicians and their double front,

Who live by lies, yet dare not boldly lie:—

Now what I love in women is, they won't