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 12. Opusculum  For a very small Album  FAIR Cousin, thy page is small to encage the thoughts which engage the mind of a sage,  such as I am;  'Twere in teaspoon to take the whole Genevese lake, or a lap-dog to make the white Elephant sac  -red in Siam.  Yet inadequate though to the terms strange and so -lemn that figure in po -lysyllabical row  in a treatise;  Still, true words and plain, of the heart, not the brain, in affectionate strain, this book to contain  very meet is.  So I promise to be a good Cousin to thee, and to keep safe the se -cret I heard, although e  -v'ry one know it;  With a lyrical air my kind thoughts I would dare, and offer whate'er beseems the news, were  I a poet.  Brighton .  April, 1829