To indite an ode on Royalty’s affairs,

For disloyalty to Princes isn’t reckoned any crime,

’Mong the people whose society he shares.

In a word he is a poet, and a Socialist to boot,

One whose company ’tis wiser to eschew;

For although I am a person of importance and repute,

It is certain I am neither of the two.

J. L. J.

THE TWINS.