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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."