Nor knoweth what to-morrow will bring forth!

VIII.

To-morrow came, and with to-morrow's sun

A little daughter to this world of sins,—

Miss-fortunes never come alone—so one

Brought on another, like a pair of twins:

Twins! female twins!—it was enough to stun

Their little wits and scare them from their skins

To hear their father stamp, and curse, and swear,

Pulling his beard because he had no heir.