Monsieur Le Secretaire. [John Clark Ridpath]

Mon cher Monsieur le Secretaire,
Your song flits with me everywhere;
It lights on Fancy's prow and sings
Me on divinest voyagings:
And when my ruler love would fain
Be laid upon it -- high again
It mounts, and hugs itself from me
With rapturous wings -- still dwindlingly --
On! -- on! till but a _ghost_ is there
Of song, Monsieur le Secretaire!