As if they ne’er had formed a part
Of what he’d lavished praise upon—
Yes, but for these, and these alone
Some moments, aye, till office hour,
He still might doubt false whiskey’s power.
But no, to bed he faintly reels,
So sad the sight that room reveals.
The Puppet Show, April 8, 1848.
(The above lines were reproduced, without the slightest acknowledgment, in the Summer Number of “The Chiel,” 1885.)