Dedicatory Poem for "Underwoods"

TO her, for I must still regard her

As feminine in her degree,

Who has been my unkind bombarder

Year after year, in grief and glee,

Year after year, with oaken tree;

And yet betweenwhiles my laudator

In terms astonishing to me -

To the Right Reverend The Spectator

I here, a humble dedicator,