The meagre stores of verbal gratitude;
But, such as I possess, I send thee all.
This page presents thee in their full amount
With thy son's treasures, and the sum is nought; 15
Nought, save the riches that from airy dream
In secret grottos and in laurel bowers
I have, by golden Clio's gift, acquired.
Verse is a work divine; despise not thou
Verse, therefore, which evinces (nothing more) 20
Man's heavenly source, and which, retaining still