The reader; but 't would not be hard to bring
Some fine examples of the Epopée,
To prove its grand ingredient is Ennui.[216]
XCVIII.
We learn from Horace, "Homer sometimes sleeps;"[217]
We feel without him,—Wordsworth sometimes wakes,—
To show with what complacency he creeps,
With his dear "Waggoners," around his lakes.[218]
He wishes for "a boat" to sail the deeps—