——:o:——

Hygiea.

(A sanitary Lyric, imitated from Edgar Poe’s “Ligiea,”
and dedicated by Mr. Punch to Dr. Richardson.)

Hygiea! Hygiea!

Most exigent one!

I have an idea

Thou pokest thy fun.

Oh! is it thy will

To make noodles of us,

By urging us still