On seeing a Ladybird fly off CELIA’s Neck, after having perched on it for many minutes.
I thought (God bless my soul!)
Yon ladybird her mole—
I thought—but devil take the thing,
It proved my error—took to wing—
A Thought on NEW MILK.
Oh! how charming is New Milk!
Sweet as sugar—soft as silk!
Familiar Verses, addressed to two Young Gentlemen at the Hounslow Academy.
Take notice, roguelings, I prohibit
Your walking underneath yon gibbet:
Have you not heard, my little ones,
Of Raw Head and Bloody Bones?
How do you know, but that there fellow,
May step down quick, and you up swallow?
EXTEMPORE.
To DELIA, on seeing TWO CATS playing together.
See, DELY, DELY, charming fair,
How Pusseys play upon that chair;
Then, DELY, change thy name to WRAY,
And thou and I will likewise play.
On a BLADE-BONE.