and plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:—

"Fair fall thy soft heart!

A good work wilt thou do?

O, pray for the dead

Whom thine eyelashes slew!"

And what a nest has he found for his bonny bird to take up her abode in!—

"They strew in the path of kings and czars

Jewels and gems of price:

But for thy head I will pluck down stars,

And pave thy way with eyes.