’Twas there they were stopped; ’twas there they were scaled;

’Twas there with the forceps that I was assailed.

Say it is folly, and call me weak,

While the raging nerves puff out my cheek,

But I hate it to-day in my toothless despair,

And I’ll hate it for ever, that vile arm-chair.

A. L. D.

Modern Society. April 17, 1886.

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Song of November.