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: