When memory supplanteth the dream;

When the sun has gone down may the sunbeam remain,

And life's roses, though dead, all their fragrance retain,

Till they catch at Eternity's gleam.

ANON.


A BRIEF PUFF OF SMOKE.

Great Doctor Parr, the learned Whig,

Ne'er deemed the smoke-cloud infra dig.,

In which you could not see his wig,