And that conjuror’s mutterings, made such a din,

That startled, I woke—leap’d up in my bed—

Found the spirit, the imps, and the conjurer fled,

And blessed my stars, right pleased to see,

That I wasn’t, as yet, in Chancery.

Thomas Moore.

(This poem originally appeared in The Times, 1826.)


Fragment of a Vision.

A Dandy on a velocipede