A Mind That Is Conscious Of Its

Love's First Snow-drop, Virgin Kiss.

I Have A Hundred Times Wished That One Could Resign Life As An Officer Resigns A Commission.

Some Rhyme A Neebor's Name To Lash; Some Rhyme (vain Thought!) For Needfu' Cash; Some Rhyme To Court The Countra Clash, An' Raise A Din; For Me, An Aim I Never Fash; I Rhyme For Fun.

Why Has A Religious Turn Of Mind Always A Tendency To Narrow And Harden The Heart?

I Love Drinking Now And Then. It Defecates The Standing Pool Of Thought. A Man Perpetually In The Paroxysm And Fears Of Inebriety Is Like A Half-drowned Stupid Wretch Condemned To Labor Unceasingly In Water; But A Now-and-then Tribute To Bacchus Is Like The Cold Bath, Bracing And Invigorating.