On Apr 26, 1:53*pm, "La N." wrote:

Still not up to James Hogg's spencarian sonnets.

Ah Fred: what is't I see in thy unclouded eye?
Is't speck of dust, or an infected sty?
If sty it be, then surely not the same
As is the sty belike ye call yer hame!
But no, `tis not a sty, nor dusty mote,
Nor gleam of some rude slag of which you gloat,
But now I see `tis but thy brain - which has
Upon a tear been washed, and left afloat.


Poemistically,

The Phantom Rhymer