Made brief sojourn or long abode:

Johnson, dining behind the screen;

Goldsmith, vagrant along the road;

Keats, ah, pitiful! poor and ill,

Harassed and hurt, in his short spring day;

Best Sir Walter, with flagging quill

Digging the mountain of debt away.

Needy comrade, whose evil star,

Pallid-frowning, decrees you wrong,

Greatly neighbored, in truth, we are;