“The JORDAN have you been to see?”
Cried FOX, when late with shuffling plea,
Poor EDEN stammer’d at excuse,
But why the JORDAN introduce?
What JORDAN too will here agree?
That JORDAN which from spot could free
One man unclean here vain would be:
If yet those powers of wond’rous use
The JORDAN have!
One fitter JORDAN of the three
Would I for EDEN’s meed decree;
With me then open every sluice,
And foaming high with streams profuse,
For EDENS head may all with me
The JORDAN have!
ANOTHER.
For EDEN’s place, where circling round
EUPHRATES wash’d the hallow’d mound,
The learned long in vain have sought;
’Twas GREECE, ’twas POLAND, some have taught;
Some hold it in the deluge drown’d:
PITT thinks his search at PARIS crown’d;
See the Gazette his proofs expound!
Yet who of looking there had thought
For EDEN’s place!
No;—view yon frame with dirt embrown’d,
Some six feet rais’d above the ground,
Where rogues, exalted as they ought,
To peep through three round holes are brought,
There will the genuine spot be found
For EDEN’s place!
EPIGRAMS
On the IMMACULATE BOY
That Master PITT seems
To be fond of extremes,
No longer is thought any riddle;
For sure we may say,
’Tis as plain as the day,
That he always kept clear of the middle.