Bayard Taylor.
THE FLIGHT OF THE BUCKET
PRE-ADMONISHETH the writer:
H'm, for a subject it is well enough!
Who wrote "Sordello" finds no subject tough.
Well, Jack and Jill—God knows the life they led
(The poet never told us, more's the pity)
Pent up in some damp kennel of their own,
Beneath the hillside; but it once befell
That Jack and Jill, niece, cousin, uncle, aunt