A LA BONNE HEURE 



There's statues gracing 

 This noble place in 

 All heathen gods 



And nymphs so fair; 

 Bold Neptune, Plutarch, 

 And Nicodemus, 

 All standing naked. 



In the open air! 

 So now to finish 

 This brave narration, 

 Which my poor geni' 



Could not entwine ; 

 But were I Homer, 

 Or Nebuchadnezzar, 

 'Tis in every feature 



I would make it shine. 



R. A. MlLLIKIN. 



The Groves of Blarney. 



With deep devotion, Nature, did I feel, 

 In that enormous City's turbulent world 

 Of men and things, what benefit I owed 

 To thee, and those domains of rural peace, 

 Where to the sense of beauty first my heart 



[51] 



