In crystal calmness or in stormy weather!
Oh that the "freshness of the heart" could fall
Once more upon my spirit, and could kindly
Bring back again the days when first of all
I read my Blue Beard and believed it blindly!
One cure there is for all the ills that make
Existence duller than a blue-book's pages:—
A strong blue-pill is just the thing to take
For indigestion in the early stages.