With A Drawing Of The Head Of An Eminent Artist. Dear Sir, You Remember, When Herod Of Jewry Had Given A Ball, How A Shocking Old Fury Demanded, So Bent Was The Vixen On Slaughter. The Head Of St. John At The Hand Of Her Daughter: Now Do Not Detest Me, Nor Hold Me In Dread, Because, Like King Herod, I Send You A Head: Not A Saint'S, By-The-Bye, Although Taken From Life, But A Head Of My Friend, By The Hand Of My Wife.