For his love is as warm as the sun, when it sets

On the larder which steams ’neath his nose.

Diogenes, Vol. 3, p. 209, 1854.


To A Lady.

Believe me, if all those voluminous charms

Which thy fondness for fashion betray,

And keep e’en thy nearest relations at arm’s

Distance—some paces away:

Were those air tubes now blown up exploded outright,