English Satires

by Unknown

VII.

Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows—

Perhaps some virtuous blushes, let them go—

To you I envy neither fruit nor boughs,

And for the fame you would engross below,

The field is universal, and allows

Scope to all such as feel the inherent glow;

Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe, will try

'Gainst you the question with posterity.