But I flirt on for ever!

Judy, September 4, 1867.


The Mont Cenis Train.[71]
(In the line of the Laureate.)
[Written 1868.]

O train, he says,

O trundling train, says Edmund in his rhyme,

How go you? and the train, why not? replies—

I leave the station, make a raid

With sudden upward sally

Upon the height—no lady’s maid,