Her portents, slurred his surname sweetly;

So up my smiler tripped—to me

Unknown completely.

Thus mystified, I needs must bruit

The weather—"It was rainy, rather."

"Yes," he rejoined, "It does not suit

My Poet-father:

"Strange how the damp affects great men;

My nephew, not the Wit, the Artist,

You know paints always smartest when