To One Out of Favor + 

Attention, Miles! You have observed, no doubt, + 

That General Sam Young is “fired out”; + 

That is to say, retired for age. Just so; + 

You were yourself retired not long ago⁠— + 

Just “cast as rubbish to the void” (for such + 

Is Law’s demand)⁠—alighting where ’tis much + 

Too cold for comfort. There you may be found + 

Piled up on Fame’s eternal dumping-ground. + 

If you’ve a memory you still can tell + 

Yourself how singularly hard you fell, + 

And no one “kissed the place to make it well.” + 

I know not (Mr. Root knows little else) + 

Why Sam should fare so better far than Nelse, + 

But so he did, for scarcely did he light + 

Ere Mr. Secretary gripped him tight, + 

Stood him erect, removed his coat and shirt, + 

And, finding on his person where it hurt, + 

Performed, in pity for his hapless plight, + 

The appropriate consolatory rite. + 

Miles, you are lucky! True, you’re badly bruised, + 

The wound administered, the balm refused; + 

But if too rashly you had dared to strip + 

Your aching back for the official lip, + 

Consider the temptation (none can fight it + 

Who has Administration teeth) to bite it! + 