I Have A Kitten,the Drollest

O, Popular Applause! What Heart Of Man Is Proof Against Thy Sweet, Seducing Charms?

When All Within Is Peace How Nature Seems To Smile Delights That Never Cease The Live-long Day Beguile

[my Kitten] Is Dressed In A Tortoise-shell Suit, And I Know You Will Delight In Her.

Spring Hangs Her Infant Blossoms On The Trees, Rock'd In The Cradle Of The Western Breeze.

What Peaceful Hours I Once Enjoy'd! How Sweet Their Memory Still! But They Have Left An Aching Void The World Can Never Fill.