And vainly, when disordered thoughts abound,

Amidst the Eclogue makes the trumpet sound:

Pan flies alarmed into the neighbouring woods,

And frighted nymphs dive down into the floods.

Opposed to this, another, low in style,

Makes shepherds speak a language base and vile:

His writings, flat and heavy, without sound,

Kissing the earth, and creeping on the ground,

You'd swear that Randal, in his rustic strains,[68]

Again was quavering to the country swains,