Soon shall the dark forbid the light

To any hand with power to write,

And the new myriad scribbling-race,

Like locusts shroud all Sense's face,

Rushing (where angels are not seen)

Into the Prigs' Own Magazine,

While Upper-Tens profusely scrawl

In grammar from the servants' hall,

Till Ink itself shall blush to tint

Nothing but amateurs in print,