(Delicious picking,

Although no chicken!)

Who lick their longing chaps, and get a precious licking!—

Daniel, who dreads that any row

Should spring up anywhere, and he not breed the riot!

All hail, great Fog! not but a leetle rain—

A small, slight drizzling of natural, moist sorrow—

Would make our dark perplexities more plain,

And give us hopes of seeing a to-morrow!

Dear Fog, abate the vigour