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Signer Snow-Ball assented, and ventured to add An opinion, that "all Nature's coloring was bad;"— He had thought so, e'er since a short period he spent, To muse on the paintings of Rome, as he went To visit his friend Rhododendron, who chose An abode on the Alps, in a palace of snows. But he took, on Mont Blanc, a most terrible chill, And since his return had been pallid and ill.

Half-wither'd Miss Hackmetack studied her glass, And hop'd with her cousins, the Spruces, to pass; But Ivy, the sage antiquarian, who knew Every cycle, 'twas said, that Chronology drew, Thro' his near-sighted optics, descrying her late, Discompos'd her, by asking some aid in a date; So she pouted her lips, and said, tartly, with scorn, She "could not remember before she was born."