Michael

[92]

Once more the Ass, with motion dull,

Upon the pivot of his skull

Turned round his long left ear.

“The bard who soars to elegize an ass” and the “laureate of the long-eared kind” (English Bards and Scotch Reviewers) is, however, not Wordsworth but Coleridge. See his poem To a Young Ass, its mother being tethered near it.

[93] See the poem Acte d’accusation in Les Contemplations.

[94] Le Crapaud in La Légende des Siècles.

[95] See Apology 31D.

[96] His Language and Wisdom of the Hindus appeared in 1808.