In Cupid's artful toils I roll

And thrice ten thousand pangs I feel,

For Susie's eyes have ground my soul

Beneath their iron heel.

And:

O thou, who at the age of three

Grew faint and weak and ill,

O'ertaken by the bitter pill

Of cold adversity!

which frolic through his column as late as June, 1888; to such bits as this: