From new promotion. That 's the rule—with even a rope

Of mushrooms, like this rope I dangle! those that grew

Greatest and roundest, all in life they had to do,

Gain a reward, a grace they never dreamed, I think;

Since, outside white as milk and inside black as ink,

They go to the Great House to make a dainty dish

For Don and Donna; while this basket-load, I wish

Well off my arm, it breaks,—no starveling of the heap

But had his share of dew, his proper length of sleep

I' the sunshine: yet, of all, the outcome is—this queer