And gave in it these terms:—

"We find as how as certain slugs

Has sent him to the worms!"

[MORNING MEDITATIONS.]

Let Taylor preach upon a morning breezy

How well to rise while nights and larks are flying—

For my part getting up seems not so easy

By half as lying.

What if the lark does carol in the sky,

Soaring beyond the sight to find him out—