If you keep to the RIGHT you’ll be WRONG.
I cannot bear to see a bear, bear down upon a hare,
When bare of hair he strips the hare, for hare I cry, “forbear!”
ON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF KILDARE.
Who killed Kildare? Who dared Kildare to kill?
Death answers,—
I killed Kildare, and dare kill whom I will.
A CatALECTIC MONODY.
A cat I sing of famous memory,
Though catachrestical my song may be: