The dogs, with eager yelp, / Are struggling to be free; / The hawks in frequent stoop / Token their haste for flight; / And couchant on the saddle-bow, / With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d, / The ounce expects his liberty.

Old Simon the Soaker now keeps a rare store / Of Malmsey and Malvoisie / In tub-fuls of hundreds of litres or more, / For a vinous old soul is he—e, / A porous old so—ul is he; …

The company, based in Boston and the third-largest securitizer of student loans, received a subpoena on Aug. 22, according to a statement yesterday on its Web site.

And Helga for whatever reason, looks after him. She's an earth mother, in a way..