With this opprobrium of the times!
Oh praise absurd! since not one ray
Of genius sparkles in that ‘lay’
No sympathy for human woe,
No noble purpose,—patriot glow;—
No moral lesson to impart
Its solace to the suffering heart;
Not e’en the landscape’s vivid scene,
Or pointed barb of satire keen!
Where find in it one flash of wit,