Beware! for my wrath is a thing to dread!

Yet e'en in the hour of his wrath the poet

Rhymes you and sings with the selfsame glee.

"Yes, yes, good sir, you are a poet,"

Chirped out the pecker, mocking me.

IN THE SOUTH.[[16]]

I swing on a bough, and rest

My tired limbs in a nest,

In the rocking home of a bird,

Wherein I perch as his guest,