Free from the business of the bustling day,

This interval indulging, to the Club

Of Spouters I repair; where mortal forms,

Borne high upon the feathers of conceit,

Rise into air; while puffing blasts of wind,

Bursting from loosely-flying Fancy's cave,

Blow them to regions where Theatra dwells.

Here, o'er the summit of a chair I loll;

My circumspective eyes explore the room.

A groupe of staring objects strike my sight;