Longum, formose, vale, vale.—Virgil.
Melpomene, thou mournful muse,
A serious vein of grief infuse,
A vein that suits with Death:
Seiz’d by Grimalkin’s savage claws,
Beneath her unrelenting jaws,
Poor Bun resigns his breath.
Bun, the most hopeful of the brood,
Left the wild pastimes of the wood,
To dwell with social man;