92 WITH HERBS AND FLOWERS 



We have short time to stay, as you, 



We have as short a spring ; 

 As quick a growth to meet decay, 

 As you, or anything. 



We die 

 As your hours do, and dry 



Away 



Like to the summer's rain ; 

 Or as the pearls of morning's dew, 

 Ne'er to be found again. 



ROBERT HERBICK. 



THE FLOWERS WE LOVE BEST 



(From " The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table") 



1 LOVE the damask rose best of all. The flowers our 

 mothers and sisters used to love and cherish, those 

 which grow beneath our eaves and by our doorstep, 

 are the ones we always love best. If the Houy- 

 hnhnms should ever catch me, and, finding me parti- 

 cularly vicious and unmanageable, send a man-tamer 

 to Rareyfy me, I'll tell you what drugs he would 

 have to take and how he would have to use them. 

 Imagine yourself reading a number of the Houyhnhnm 

 Gazette, giving an account of such an experiment. 



" Man-taming Extraordinary 



" The soft-hoofed semi-quadruped recently cap- 

 tured was subjected to the art of our distinguished 

 man-tamer in presence of a numerous assembly. 



