To me, alas! no verdurous visions come,

Save yon exiguous pool’s conferva-scum;

No concave vast repeats the tender hue

That laves my milk-jug with celestial blue!

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!

Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!

Oh, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,—

Depart,—be off,—excede,—evade,—erump!

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.

A CHEMICAL VALENTINE.