A Volume of Nonsense

DEAR MURRAY,--

You ask for a "_Volume of Nonsense_,"

Have all of your authors exhausted their store?

I thought you had published a good deal not long since.

And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more.

But on looking again, I perceive that the Species

Of "Nonsense" you want must be purely "_facetious_;"

And, as that is the case, you had best put to press

Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in M.S.,

Some Syrian Sally

From common-place Gally,

Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women,

Take a spick and span "Sketch" of your feminine _He-Man_.