Well, I will help you, as I can,

For sponge and broom are my vocation,

As critic and as waterman.

But when the finished work I scan,

I'm glad to see each learned owl

With "wisdom" board and wall defoul.

RIMUS REMEDIUM
(or a Consolation to Sick Poets).

From thy moist lips,

O Time, thou witch, beslavering me,

Hour upon hour too slowly drips