The broad slopes of the shining Pyramid
Look’d down in their austere simplicity
Upon the glistening silence of the sands,
Whereon no trace of mortal dust was seen.
Richard Hengist Horne.
THE ANNUITY
I GAED to spend a week in Fife;
An unco week it proved to be,
For there I met a waesome wife
Lamentin’ her viduity.