The Vulture and the Husbandman.
By Louisa Caroline.
(A Vulture is a rapacious and obscene bird, which destroys its prey by plucking it limb from limb, with its powerful beak and talons. A Husbandman is a man in a low position of life who supports himself by the use of the plough.—Johnson’s Dictionary.)
The rain was raining cheerfully,
As if it had been May,
The senate-house appeared inside
Unusually gay;
And this was strange, because it was
A vivâ-voce day.