"What spell had power to help you get
Those seven-leagued spectacles, that see
Down to the nineteenth century?
"The mad world, and his madder wife!"
That, in your earlier time of life,—
Though quite demented now,?t is plain,—
Were sober, grave, and almost sane!
And all the tribes, a motley brood
Sprung into being since the flood,
With their hereditary bent