PAGE
PREFACE v
NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS—
I. Some like drink 3
II. Here, perfect to a wish 4
III. As seamen on the seas 5
IV. The pamphlet here presented 6
MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES—
I. See how the children in the print 9
II. Reader, your soul upraise to see 11
III. A PEAK IN DARIEN—Broad-gazing on untrodden lands 13
IV. See in the print how, moved by whim 15
V. Mark, printed on the opposing page 17
MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES—
I. With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee 21
II. The careful angler chose his nook 23
III. The Abbot for a walk went out 25
IV. The frozen peaks he once explored 27
V. Industrious pirate! see him sweep 29
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS—
For certain soldiers lately dead 33
THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE
VERSES
I. PROEM—Unlike the common run of men 37
II. THE PRECARIOUS MILL—Alone above the stream it 41
stands
III. THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES—The first pine to the 45
second said
IV. THE TRAMPS—Now long enough had day endured 49
V. THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER—The howling desert miles 51
around
VI. THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN—The echoing bridge you 55
here may see
MORAL TALES—
I. ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE 59
APOTHECARY—Come, lend me an attentive ear
II. THE BUILDER’S DOOM—In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin 73
NOT I
AND OTHER POEMS
I
NOT I
Some like drink
In a pint pot,
Some like to think;
Some not.
Strong Dutch cheese,
Old Kentucky rye,
Some like these;
Not I.
Some like Poe,
And others like Scott,
Some like Mrs. Stowe;
Some not.
Some like to laugh,
Some like to cry,
Some like chaff;
Not I.