THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS HOOD.

WITH SOME

ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

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M.DCCC.LVI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY STONE AND SMART.

A Black Job....

Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire.....

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy..

A Retrospective Review...

305

314

335

340

POEMS.

MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS

LEG.

A GOLDEN LEGEND.

"What is here?

Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold?"

TIMON OF ATHENS.

Her Pedigree.

To trace the Kilmansegg pedigree,
To the very roots of the family tree,
Were a task as rash as ridiculous:
Through antediluvian mists as thick
As London fog such a line to pick
Were enough, in truth, to puzzle Old Nick,
Not to name Sir Harris Nicholas.

It would'nt require much verbal strain
To trace the Kill-man, perchance, to Cain;
But waving all such digressions,
Suffice it, according to family lore,

A Patriarch Kilmansegg lived of yore,
Who was famed for his great possessions.
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