By giving them to read in prose the filth concealed in verse!

As this poem is not a parody, it is unnecessary to give further extracts from it.

——:o:——

TO A SKYLARK.

Hail to thee, blithe spirit!

Bird thou never wert,

That from Heaven, or near it,

Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still, and higher,