LINES TO A LEGIONARY.
(Members of the new corps of domestic servants are called legionaries.)
Sole hope of this my household, martial maid
Whom ordered ranks and discipline austere
Have shaped (I gather) for a braver trade,
So that respect, not all unmixed with fear,
Informs my breast as I await you here,
Your title, with its stern Cæsarian touch,
Does, to be frank, alarm me very much.
Come not, I pray you, to my casual home