Found scope in scholarly urbanity;

And wheresoever LOWELL went

Sounded the voice of Sense and Sanity.

We loved you, and we loved your wit.

Thinking of you, uncramped, uncranky;

Our hearts, ere we're aware of it,

"Run helter-skelter into Yankee."

"For puttin' in a downright lick

'Twixt Humbug's eyes, there's few to metch it."

Faith, how you used it; ever quick