The gout! the gout! the gout! the gout!—

I turn again my muse about,

And fancy yet I can’t refrain

From lauding in the highest strain—

(As ’twere—with organs, great in tone,

Reverb’rating from zone to zone,

And angels rivalling to intone

Their universal notes of joy;

Whilst all the hosts of heaven deploy

In armour wrought by gods of grace,