TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR, 226 LA MORT D'ARTHUR, 228 JUPITER AND THE INDIAN ALE, 229 THE LAY OF THE DOUDNEY BROTHERS, 232 PARIS AND HELEN, 235 A WARNING, 238 TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY, 239 WANT PLACES, 241 _Miscellaneous Poems_ THE LAY OF THE LOVER'S FRIEND, 245 FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, 249 THE CADI'S DAUGHTER: A LEGEND OF THE BOSPHORUS, 253 THE DIRGE OF THE DRINKER, 258 THE DEATH OF DUVAL, 261 EASTERN SERENADE, 267 DAME FREDEGONDE, 271 SONG OF THE ENNUYE, 276 THE DEATH OF SPACE, 279 CAROLINE, 281 TO A FORGET-ME-NOT, 284 THE MEETING, 286 THE MISHAP, 288 COMFORT IN AFFLICTION, 291 THE INVOCATION, 293 THE HUSBAND'S PETITION, 297 SONNET TO BRITAIN, 301 L'ENVOY. Come, buy my lays, and read them if you list; My pensive public, if you list not, buy. Come, for you know me. I am he who sang Of Mister Colt, and I am he who framed Of Widdicomb the wild and wondrous song. Come, listen to my lays, and you shall hear How Wordsworth, battling for the Laureate's wreath, Bore to the dust the terrible Fitzball; How N. P. Willis for his country's good, In complete steel, all bowie-knived at point, Took lodgings in the Snapping Turtle's womb. Come, listen to my lays, and you shall hear The mingled music of all modern bards Floating aloft in such peculiar strains, As strike themselves with envy and amaze; For you "bright-harped" Tennyson shall sing; Macaulay chant a more than Roman lay; And Bulwer Lytton, Lytton Bulwer erst, Unseen amidst a metaphysic fog, Howl melancholy homage to the moon; For you once more Montgomery shall rave In all his rapt rabidity of rhyme; Nankeened Cockaigne shall pipe his puny note, And our young England's penny trumpet blow. SPANISH BALLADS The Broken Pitcher. It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by a well, And what the maiden thought of, I cannot, cannot tell, When by there rode a valiant knight from the town of Oviedo-- Alphonzo Guzman was he hight, the Count of Tololedo.