The subjects' rarity, work problems out

Therewith.' Now, you 're a bard, a bard past doubt,

And no philosopher; why introduce

Crotchets like these? fine, surely, but no use

In poetry—which still must be, to strike,

Based upon common sense; there 's nothing like

Appealing to our nature! what beside

Was your first poetry? No tricks were tried

In that, no hollow thrills, affected throes!

'The man,' said we, 'tells his own joys and woes: