An Ode to Toast-Master Toole.[42]

“Descend, ye Nine!”

No common theme is mine—

I sing of thee, O Toole!

Bacchus baptised thee in a font of wine,

And from the roseate pool

Thy face received the sunny tint it wears,

And thus illumed (blest face!) a thousand “chairs.”

Who, that hath heard poor Charity’s appeal