Lord, how principles pass away!
Sleep, Mr. Speaker—sleep while you may!
Winthrop M. Praed.
PELTERS OF PYRAMIDS
A SHOAL of idlers, from a merchant craft
Anchor’d off Alexandria, went ashore,
And mounting asses in their headlong glee,
Round Pompey’s Pillar rode with hoots and taunts,
As men oft say, “What art thou more than we?”
Next in a boat they floated up the Nile,