His are just the fine hands, too, to weave you a lyric

Full of fancy, fun, feeling, or spiced with satyric

In a measure so kindly, you doubt if the toes

That are trodden upon are your own or your foes.”

James Russell Lowell.

THE PIOUS EDITOR’S CREED

I DU believe in Freedom’s cause,

Ez fur away ez Paris is;

I love to see her stick her claws