Not get and garner as the vulgar may,

We became poor as Francis or our Lord.

Be that as it likes you, Sirs,—whenever it chanced

Myself grew capable anyway of remark,

(Which was soon—penury makes wit premature)

This struck me, I was poor who should be rich

Or pay that fault to the world which trifles not

When lineage lacks the flag yet lifts the pole:

On, therefore, I must move forthwith, transfer

My stranded self, born fish with gill and fin