And summon back the things that were,

Which only thus in vapour last?

What wonder if I envy not

The rich, the giddy, and the proud,

Contented in this quiet spot

To blow my after-dinner cloud?

From Gillott and Goosequill. By Henry S. Leigh. London, British Publishing Company. 1871.

My Three Loves.

When Life was all a summer day,

And I was under twenty,