Yet what resource beside is left for me?
O, Mr. Rowland, do contrive some charm
That by the sea may keep our hair in curl;
Call it the Bostryk-Oceanic Balm,
And take the blessings of each English girl.
Diogenes. September, 1853.
The Clerk’s Petition.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Clerk,
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,