Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

3. "Who at this untimely hour

Wanders o'er the desert sands?

No station is in view,

No palm-grove islanded amidst the waste,—

The mother and her child,

The widow'd mother and the fatherless boy,

They at this untimely hour

Wander o'er the desert sands."[^[13]]

—Southey, Thalaba.

4. "Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,