And useless drafts, in many a mould'ring heap,

Each for parade to catch the client's eye;

Salkeld and Ventris in oblivion sleep.

In these dead hours, what now remains for me,

Still to the stool and to the desk confin'd:

Debarr'd from Autumn shades, and liberty,

Whose lips are soft as my Cleora's kind!"


"See Term appears to rule a passive world,

And awe the frighted rustick with its train