IMITATED FROM DE MUSSET.

My verse contains some images, ’tis true,

On Byron’s pages found, what then, he too

On other pages found them long before,

(Byron, I think, would hardly grudge them me,

Seeing I need them so much worse than he).

Read carefully the old Italian lore,

If you, to draw it very mild, would see

How freely Byron borrowed; he or she

As stupid as a school teacher must be