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,