Even auctioneers and lawyers stand aghast,

And not a woman speaks.--So thick and fast

The wordy shower descends, that you would swear

A thousand bells were jangling in your ear,

A thousand basins clattering. Vex no more

Your trumpets and your timbrels, as of yore,

To ease the laboring moon; her single yell

Can drown their clangor, and dissolve the spell

She lectures too in Ethics, and declaims

On the Chief Good!--but, surely, she who aims