Whose numbers are so highly priz’d,
Their memories are immortaliz’d.
The first, whose poems still are saved,
Was he who wrote the Psalms, King David.
Homer and Virgil, and a score
Of Greek and Latin poets more,
Have sung in such melodious measure,
That verses still are read with pleasure.
The moderns too have sung their share,
Voltaire, Racine, and Molière;