Of Rondeau tired, and Triolet as well!

THE BALLADE.

(In Bad Weather.)

Oh! I’m in a terrible plight—

For how can I rhyme in the rain?

’Tis pouring from morn until night:

So bad is the weather again,

My language is almost profane!

Though shod with the useful galosh,

I’m racked with rheumatical pain—