In the dead-blank recess of Parliament.

Yet so it is,—my thoughts are so confused,

My memory is so wild a wilderness,

I need the order of the measured line

To help me, whensoe'er I would attempt

To methodise the random notices

Of purblind observation. Easier far

The minuet step of slippery sliding verse,

Than the strong stately walk of steadfast prose.

Since you have left us, many a beauteous change