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,