_Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final._--
1.
Though from rough cough, or hiccough free,
That man has pain enough,
Whose wound through plough, sunk in slough
Or lough begins to slough.
2.
'Tis not an easy task to show
How _o_, _u_, _g_, _h_ sound; since _though_
An Irish _lough_ and English _slough_,
And _cough_ and hic_cough_, all allow,
Differ as much as _tough_, and _through_,
There seems no reason why they do.