At pork and poetry was chosen chairwoman;—

In fact, the bluest of the Blues, Miss Ikey,

Whose whole pronunciation was so piggy,

She always named the authoress of “Psyche”—

As Mrs. Tiggey!

And now arose a question of some moment,—

What author for a lecture was the richer,

Bacon or Hogg? there were no votes for Beaumont,

But some for Flitcher;

While others, with a more sagacious reasoning,