The Poetry Corner

Sent For The Album Of The Rev. G---- C----,

By Thomas Gent

With a Drawing of the Head of an Eminent Artist. Dear Sir, you remember, when Herod of Jewry Had given a ball, how a shocking old fury Demanded, so bent was the vixen on slaughter. The head of St. John at the hand of her daughter: Now do not detest me, nor hold me in dread, Because, like King Herod, I send you a head: Not a saint's, by-the-bye, although taken from life, But a head of my friend, by the hand of my wife.