The sooner they go down the less there’s to pay,
When goodbye is said to the college.
From The Lays of the Mocking Sprite,
by E. B. C. Cambridge, W. Metcalfe and Sons.
(There is no date to this curious little collection, nor does the Author’s name appear.)
Meloncholic.
Three Melons went sailing out in the West—
Nutmeg, water, and musk,
Three little boys at evening dusk,
While nature brooded in damp suspense,