Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some loquacious vessels were; and some
Listen’d perhaps, but never talk’d at all.
Said one among them—‘Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta’en
And to this figure, moulded to be broke
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.’
Then said a Second—‘Ne’er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy;