&nbspplimentary versicles to jessie lewars

the toast

fill me with the rosy wine,

call a toast, a toast divine:

giveth me poet's darling flame,

lovely jessie be her name;

then thou mayest freely boast,

thou hast given a peerless toast.

the menagerie

talk not to me of savages,

from afric's burning sun;

no savage e'er could rend my heart,

as jessie, thou hast done:

but jessie's lovely hand in mine,