Autographic. for an Album

I feel, if aught I ought to rhyme, / I ought 'a' thought a longer time, / And ought 'a' caught a higher sense, / Of autocratic eloquence. / I ought 'a' sought each haughty Muse / That taught a thought I ought to use, / And fought and fraught, and so devised / A poem _unmonotonized_. -- / But since all this was vain, I thought / I ought to simply say, -- I ought / To thank you, as I ought to do, / And ought to bow my best to you; / And ought to trust not to intrude / A rudely wrought-up gratitude, / But ought to smile, and ought to laugh, / And ought to write -- an autograph.