BY FATHER PROUT.
Duo quisque Alpina coruscat
Gæsa manu.—Æneid. lib. 8.
Παν πραγμα δυας εχει λαβας.—Epictetus.
September the first on the moorland hath burst,
And already with jocund carol
Each Nimrod of nouse hurries off to the grouse,
And has shouldered his double barrel;
For well doth he ken, as he hies through the glen,
That scanty will be his laurel