Shall lend my simile assistance:
Our modern bards! why, what a pox
Are they—but senseless stones and blocks?
EPITAPH ON DR. PARNELL.
This tomb, inscribed to gentle Parnell's name,
May speak our gratitude, but not his fame.
What heart but feels his sweetly moral lay,
That leads to truth through pleasure's flowery way?
Celestial themes confess'd his tuneful aid;