Who was that sweetest of sweet creatures, Last Sunday, in the Rector's seat? The finest shape,--the loveliest features, I never saw such tiny feet. My brother,--(this is quite between us) Poor Arthur,--'twas a sad affair! Love at first sight,--She's quite a Venus, But then she's poorer far than fair-- And so my father and my mother Agreed it would not do at all-- And so,--I'm sorry for my brother! It's settled that we're not to call. And there's an author, full of knowledge-- And there's a captain on half-pay-- And there's a baronet from college, Who keeps a boy, and rides a bay-- And sweet Sir Marcus from the Shannon, Fine specimen of brogue and bone-- And Doctor Calipee, the canon, Who weighs, I fancy, twenty stone-- A maiden lady is adorning The faded front of Lily Hall-- Upon my word, the first fine morning, We'll make around, my dear, and call. Alas! disturb not, maid and matron, The swallow in my humble thatch-- Your son may find a better patron, Your niece may meet a richer match-- I can't afford to give a dinner, I never was on Almack's list-- And since I seldom rise a winner, I never like to play at whist-- Unknown to me the stocks are falling-- Unwatch'd by me the glass may fall-- Let all the world pursue its calling, I'm not at home if people call. _London Magazine._ * * * * * WINE DRINKING. Use a little wine, for thy stomach's sake. I Tim. v. 23. So says St. Paul--and this seems to have been the opinion of the most ancient philosophers and physicians. A moderate use of it has been sanctioned by the wise and good in all ages. Those who have denied its virtues are those who have not been able to drink it. Asclepiades wrote upon wine, the use of which he introduced with almost every remedy, observing, that the gods had bestowed no more valuable gift on man: even the surly Diogenes drank it; for it is said of him, that he liked that wine best, which he drank at other people's cost--a notion adopted by the oinopholous Mosely, who, when asked, "What wine do you drink, doctor?" answered, "Port at home--claret abroad!" Hippocrates, the father of physic, recommends a cheerful glass; and Rhases, an ancient Arabian physician, says, no liquor is equal to good wine. Reineck wrote a dissertation "De Potu Vinoso;" and the learned Dr. Shaw lauded the "juice of the grape." But the stoutest of its medical advocates was Tobias Whitaker, physician to Charles II., who undertook to prove the possibility of maintaining life, from infancy to old age, without sickness, by the use of wine!