LADY GAY.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE SELECTION.

Le type le plus "noir" dans le monde,
Le nomme, on dit, Le Chouan!
Mais, roulé au dessous de l'onde,
Devient "Blanc" comme _Kairouan_!

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TO ASTRÆA.

(_WHO WOULD HAVE ME SHOW HER MY HAND._)

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Too pretty Palmist, oh, refrain,
Nor thus my Destinies importune
To bare the map of trite and plain
Misfortune.

Methinks, that I, sweet sorceress,
Whose weird persuasions fascinate us,
Can read my stars without express
Afflatus.

"_I'm o'er ambitious_"--more than true;
To fail, the lot of clever men 'tis.
Who's _not_ a genius in his two-