EPITHALAMIUM, 
 
 (THE LINES RHVMING AT BOTH ENDS) 
 
 Composed on Reading the Announcement of the Nuptials, on 
 the 3rd inst., in London, of Mr. John Russell Smith, Book- 
 seller, of Old Compton Street, and Miss Frances Caigou. 
 
 “01 the joys of nuptial love,— 
 
 A foretaste they of those above!'* 
 
 Q—l^OW^'D another pair's bright hopes, kind Hymen, now, behold he has! 
 
 S— OUND his fame — still loud proclaim — till the praise of young and old 
 he has! 
 
 in rend’ring him his meed who still doth bring together so 
 
 M —AID and youth, and then, anon, them doth sweetly tether so ! 
 
 |— N his unions blest of hearts, oh I sure, more wise he never seem'd : 
 
 |_N* our pair, so good and fair, such virtues rare there ever seem'd 1 
 yet riper, day by day, affection pure like their's it must; 
 y— o sympathize so each with each, how lighten life's dull cares it must I— 
 O— PE her bounteous hand may Fate— each blessing ever send our pair ! 
 
 H — OPE, too, still— to cheer their course— her aid, 0 1 may she lend our 
 
 pair,— 
 
 U— ntil, at length, (Heav'n's favour won) nought's wanted to defend our 
 
 pair ! 
 
 * These will make the Critic flout; 
 
 No doubt, he’ll shout— “the rhymer's ^out'I" 
 Until,' below, too, thaf^ unpair’d, 
 Although no pains the writer spared ; 
 
 It so must stand, you carping elf. 
 
 Until ‘until’s’ pair'd by — your self I 
 E'en Byron, Reader, says — ^^‘Sometimes, 
 Tyrants are a less plague than rhymes !" 
 
 C. C. 
 
 GREAT T M HALL, ESSEX, AUGUST, 1844.