It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.