To have a cosy cup of tea.

Alas! how often human sippers

With unexpected bitters meet,

And buds, the sweetest of the sweet,

Like sugar, only meet the nippers!

The Widow Cross, I should have told,

Had seen three husbands to the mould:

She never sought an Indian pyre,

Like Hindoo wives that lose their loves;

But, with a proper sense of fire,