She worked like masons on a monument,
Earning their bread. Was not this love indeed?
From Poems and Parodies, by Phœbe Carey,
Boston, U.S., 1854.
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Benjamin Cæsar Redivivus.
(On the recovery of Lord Beaconsfield from an attack of gout).
Ben Dizzy patch’d and mended for to-day,
Not like old Cæsar, dead and turned to clay,
Will still go on in his corrupting play,
Nor “stop a hole to keep the wind away.”
Fiz, January 18, 1879.