Mirth and metre . -same corner where it sat in days of yore :And its pewter still is shining, and it bears the frothy lining,Which the night when first I drained its cooling beverage it bore,Eut my mouth that frothy lining never, never tasted more, Since it muttered, Pay your score! I have concluded my extracts; the remaining poems areprincipally of a private and personal nature, which renders themunfitted for publication. After a perusal of his verses there will, I trust, be very fewpersons who will not at once appreciate the powers of mylamented friend, and grieve over the illiberal treatmen
Mirth and metre . -same corner where it sat in days of yore :And its pewter still is shining, and it bears the frothy lining,Which the night when first I drained its cooling beverage it bore,Eut my mouth that frothy lining never, never tasted more, Since it muttered, Pay your score! I have concluded my extracts; the remaining poems areprincipally of a private and personal nature, which renders themunfitted for publication. After a perusal of his verses there will, I trust, be very fewpersons who will not at once appreciate the powers of mylamented friend, and grieve over the illiberal treatment he expe-rienced. Should I find that tardy justice is clone to Ms pro-ductions, and that they meet with that posthumous popularitywhich is undoubtedly their due, the effort which I have made tobring him into notice, and to shake the dii majores of the literary-world on their unstable thrones, will not have been unrewarded. EHmuttt % fgates. LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STBEET COYENT GAEDEN. «^ I. m p|2 jhs^ S^SgfPfFr^v^. .fir « s* ^\. ^*r w ^ £r*r V^N ^V ^ LEDGE >>CO LQI/DO^MEWYORt
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