I.

Bob Southey! You're a poet—Poet-laureate,

And representative of all the race;

Although 'tis true that you turn'd out a Tory

Last—yours has lately been a common case—

And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at?

With all the Lakers, in and out of place?

A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye

Like "four-and-twenty Blackbirds in a pie;