No. 47. ERMININE READING HOMER.

HELLEN was once as fair,
Erminine! as you are,
And was as fickle too
Almost, or quite, as you.
When you’ve turn’d o’er the page
Of Greece’s poet-sage,
You’ll place upon one palm
Your head, its thoughts to calm,
And dwell upon the best
Arising o’er the rest,
Who would not rather he
Hectors Andromache?