Because they were constructed in a hurry;[386]
Thus the same cause which makes a verse want feet,
And throws a cloud o'er Longman and John Murray,
When the sale of new books is not so fleet
As they who print them think is necessary,
May likewise put off for a time what story
Sometimes calls "Murder," and at others "Glory."
XXVII.
Whether it was their engineer's stupidity,
Their haste or waste, I neither know nor care,