How I loved her twenty years syne!
Marian’s married, but I sit here
Alone and merry at Forty Year,
Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE
A STREET there is in Paris famous,
For which no rhyme our language yields,
Rue Neuve des Petits Champs its name is—
The New Street of the Little Fields.