pace—
In the mad exulting revel
He left his shoes to his son and heir,
His hocks to a champagne-dealer at Ware,
A lock of his hair
To the Lady-Mare,
And his hoofs and his tail to the——!
"There are also to be found some prettyish bits of descriptive verse, of which the following may be quoted, from the so-called song of In-the-Water with Longfellow's metre preserved:—
'Down into the water stept she,
Down into the tranquil nver,