Another board of oysters, ladye mine!

To-night Lucullus with himself shall sup.

These mute inglorious Miltons are divine!

And as I here in slippered ease recline,

Quaffing of Perkins’ Entire my fill,

I sigh not for the nymph of Aganippe’s rill.

But these remarks are neither here nor there.

Where was I? Oh, I see—old Southey’s dead!

They’ll want some bard to fill the vacant chair,

And drain the annual butt—and oh, what head