• I had some things that I called mine —

    And God, that he called his,

    Till, recently a rival Claim

    Disturbed these amities.


    The property, my garden,

    Which having sown with care,

    He claims the pretty acre,

    And sends a Bailiff there.


    The station of the parties

    ...

  • The Notice that is called the Spring

    Is but a month from here —

    Put up my Heart thy Hoary work

    And take a Rosy Chair.


    Not any House the Flowers keep —

    The Birds enamor Care —

    Our salary the longest Day

    Is nothing but a Bier.

  • They called me to the Window, for

    " 'Twas Sunset" — Some one said —

    I only saw a Sapphire Farm —

    And just a Single Herd —


    Of Opal Cattle — feeding far

    Upon so vain a Hill —

    As even while I looked — dissolved —

    Nor Cattle were — nor Soil —


    But in their stead — a Sea —...