Quite independent of the Zodiac's signs,
Though certainly more difficult to rhyme at,
Because the Sun, and stars, and aught that shines,
Mountains, and all we can be most sublime at,
Are there oft dull and dreary as a dun—
Whether a sky's or tradesman's is all one.
XXX.
An in-door life is less poetical;
And out-of-door hath showers, and mists, and sleet
With which I could not brew a pastoral: