I wish I had been by when that was written!”—

And doubling to a fist each ample hand,

The empty air he boxed with, a-la-Bitton,

As if in training for a fight, long plann’d,

With Nobody—for love—at No Man’s Land!

A FOWL WIND.

“I’ll pond—I’ll tail him!”—In a voice of thunder

He recommenced his fury and his fuss,

Loud, open-mouth’d, and wedded to his blunder,