Shall we visit St. Cloud, and continue our course

To Versailles, where a palace exemplifies all

That monarchical pride from its serfs could enforce,

Till their patience exhausted accomplish'd its fall?

If at Sevres we pause to admire for awhile

Its plastic productions of classical taste,

We shall see the sole work that the Pompadour's smile

Ever sanction'd that was not impure and debased.

We should not forget St. Germain, and its claims

On a stranger's attention * * *