ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET.

Snooks, my friend, I see with sorrow

How you waste much precious time—

Notwithstanding all you borrow—

In concocting wretched rhyme.

Do not think that I fling any

Innuendoes at your head,

When I state the fact that many

Mines of Wicklow teem with lead.

Snooks, my friend, you are a ninny