Is now breaking his muscular shanks to a dance;

Now, veering and steering with cumbersome grace,

The quick-steps of his minikin Mistress to trace,

In vain her huge Romeo would bend, at her beck,

The languishing cable he rears as a neck!

That Cupid is blind we have evidence ample,

But sure never a rule had so rich an example!—

That this cooing Colossus ... this two-legged Tree ...

Should succeed with a bird you would take for a Bee!—

But enough—for my memory sadly it poses,