I'd Like To Grow Very Old As

Clap An Extinguisher Upon Your Irony If You Are Unhappily Blessed With A Vein Of It.

Oh For A Tongue To Curse The Slave Whose Treason, Like A Deadly Blight, Comes O'er The Councils Of The Brave, And Blasts Them In Their Hour Of Might!

Oh Call It By Some Better Name, For Friendship Sounds Too Cold.

In Every Thing That Relates To Science, I Am A Whole Encyclopaedia Behind The Rest Of The World.

Think What You Would Have Been Now, If Instead Of Being Fed With Tales And Old Wives' Fables In Childhood, You Had Been Crammed With Geography And Natural History!