“To meet your wish I fain would write,

But doubtful how to please,

My words are flat, my notions trite,

In short, I’m ill at ease.

“What may be done in such a fix

Your wit alone can tell;

Do you find straw to make the bricks,

Be sure I’ll not rebel.

“I ask not wheat, I won’t take chaff,

Between them lies an art