Life! what marvellous throbs and throes
The alchemy of Existence knows;
What "weals within wheels" (and woes without wohs!)
Give sophistry a handle;
Though Hare * himself could be dipp'd in the well
Where Truth's proverbial waters dwell,
It would throw no more light on the vital spell
Than a dip in the Polytechnic bell,
Or the dip—a ha'penny candle!
Alas! for the metaphysical host;