Bright genius of the A. B. C.,

Approach, in beauty past compare,

And spell Love's alphabet to me!

Content no more am I each night,

Amid a weird, dyspeptic host,

To order, with a keen delight,

And watch thee bring, the tea and toast.

I covet more transcendent joys;

Be mine, and come where Ocean waits

Instead of thee, and where annoys