Come then and press the cup, she said,

Come then and press the primrose wild.

'Now,' cried Stuart, 'I can give you a poem, with just as much love in it, and twice as much kissing.'

'That,' said I, 'would be a treasure indeed.'

He then began thus:

TO SALLY

Dawn with stains of ruddy light,

Streaks her grey and fragrant fingers,

While the Ethiop foot of night,

Envious of my Sally, lingers.