EVERY ONE TO HIS TASTE.

“Men’s tastes and trades are multifarious,

And so their ends and aims are various.

The smith seeks something cracked to mend;

The doctor would have sick to tend.

The priest desires a devotee

From whom he may extract his fee.

Each craftsman makes and vends his ware,

And hopes the rich man’s gold to share.

My sire’s a doctor; I, a bard;