I hasten to lay down my pen parody-sical;

In truth these stanzas concluding with somewhat

’Bout “birth” and “death,” which things I can’t come

I’ve only one word, and that’s to crave pardon,

These sweet pretty verses that I’ve been so hard on.

From The Individual. Cambridge, January 31, 1837.

——:o:——

A Dream (Anti-cipated).

(After Kingsley.)

Three Antis[24] went groaning out into the east—