(By a Long-way-after-a-Fellow-Poet.)

The shades of night were falling fast,

When through a western suburb passed

A man who bore upon his back

A placard, with this word in black—

"OZOKERIT."

His brow was dark, his eye beneath

Gleamed like a lantern o'er his teeth,

Which gnashing ceaselessly he sung

That fragment of an unknown tongue—