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,