They say it took him fifteen years to pen.
But all those ancients could say anything!
He put in just what rushed into his head:
While I shall have to prune and pare and print.
This comes of being born in modern times
With priests for auditory. Still, it pays.
X
THE POPE
Like to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince,
I will begin,—as is, these seven years now,