PSHAW, away with leaf and berry, And the sober-sided cup! Bring a goblet, and bright sherry, And a bumper fill me up! Though a pledge I had to shiver, And the longest ever was! Ere his vessel leaves our river, I would drink a health to Boz: Here's success to all his antics, Since it pleases him to roam, And to paddle o'er Atlantics, After such a @3sale@1 at home! May he shun all rocks whatever! And each shallow sand that lurks, And his passage be as clever As the best among his works. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NIGHTINGALE by PAUL VERLAINE THE LITTLE ELF-MAN by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS AN ANCIENT PROPHECY by PHILIP FRENEAU HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 5 by EZRA POUND IN THE PINK' by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE: L'ENVOI by IDA COLE BARTLATT |