I be derned! Howsomever, come in, pard—
The griddle-cake's thar, anyway.
IV.
As Austin Dobson might have Translated it from Horace, if it had ever occurred to Horace to write it:
RONDEAU.
Palatiis in remotis voluptates
Si quæris...
Flaccus, 2. Horatius, Carmina, Lib. V., 1
At home alone, O Nomades,
Although Maecenas' marble frieze