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