. Overheard in a garden. HORACE Heres to you! as jon moderns say when drinking,And t is a vast improvement, to my thinking,On spilling precious liquor on the sod,For fear of angering some thirsty to your Book— It cannot fail to bringPleasure to such as like that kind of thing;90 Fairies and Flowers, Curlycues and quirls. For my part, though (dont think me Pig mid Pearls),To tell the truth, I rather miss the gustibus . . / Leastways the Cover s showy,I think I 11 pass my copy on to Chloe. 91. JONAH EN ROUTE It is the Third Day Out — or (if you pinMe strictly to the Truth) the
. Overheard in a garden. HORACE Heres to you! as jon moderns say when drinking,And t is a vast improvement, to my thinking,On spilling precious liquor on the sod,For fear of angering some thirsty to your Book— It cannot fail to bringPleasure to such as like that kind of thing;90 Fairies and Flowers, Curlycues and quirls. For my part, though (dont think me Pig mid Pearls),To tell the truth, I rather miss the gustibus . . / Leastways the Cover s showy,I think I 11 pass my copy on to Chloe. 91. JONAH EN ROUTE It is the Third Day Out — or (if you pinMe strictly to the Truth) the Third Day day the Sea tempestuous has wrought,And yet I dont feel lonesome as T ought,When I consider that I am the oneAnd only passenger aboard, with noneTo tell me Stories older than the Sun,92 Or make me wagers on the Daily Run,Or, if exclusively inclined, to happened thiswise: once I took a shipFor Tarshish, and, to read upon the Trip,Had brought your Little Book of Garden Lore,Upon the which I set exceeding as I read, lost in a happy dream,There waxed a sea that smote upon our beamWith such a smite that every one was floored;My precious Little Book went Overboard,And I leaped after, of my own accord. I saved my Book, and rose in time to hail This very opportunely passing Whale, Within whose dim Cetacean Saloon I find my solitude a Precious Boon; For as I read your Garden oer and oer, I care not if I 7iever reach the Shore. 93
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