Pick’d up and brought it to her master’s hand,

Who seized it, and the mimic feature scann’d;

Yet not with the old loving ardent drouth,

He only saw in that fair face, so bland,

Look how he would at it, east, west, north, south.

A moon, a full one, with eyes, nose, and mouth.

“I’ll go to her,”—herewith his hat he touch’d,

And gave his arm a most heroic brandish;

“But no—I’ll write”—and here a spoon he clutch’d,

And ramm’d it with such fury in the standish,