And sends it shivering in his playful way
Into the gutter, where perchance it lies
Till, stumbling over it as well he may,
He falls beside it; there together let them lay.
The Puppet Show, March 25, 1848.
Address to a Wine Barrel.
(By a Poetical Butler.)
There is pleasure in cask of wood,
There is a rapture on a stony floor,