Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,

Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,

Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so,"

Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past,

Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do,

Own they foresaw that you would fall at last,[MY]And solace your slight lapse 'gainst bonos mores,

With a long memorandum of old stories.