On two or three books with a plot;

Of course you know “Janet’s Repentance”?

I’m reading Sir Waverley Scott,

The story of Edgar and Lucy,

How thrilling, romantic, and true!

The master (his bride was a goosey!)

Reminds me of you.

They tell me Cockaigne has been crowning

A Poet whose garland endures;

It was you who first spouted me Browning,—