Sir, if we are to have a song of the North East Wind, I submit that mine is more the thing than Mr. Kingsley’s, and therefore beg to enclose it for your journal, which has occasionally, though at distant intervals, beguiled a miserable half-hour for,

“Your dyspeptic reader,

“Miserrimus Meagreson.”

My Song of the North Wind.

Hang thee, vile North Easter;

Other things may be

Very bad to bear with,

Nothing equals thee.

Grim and grey North Easter,

From each Essex-bog,