With Five-o'clock Tea in a house we know.

Still, 'tis the check that gives the leap its lift.

The nullity of cultivated souls,

Even advantaged by their news from Vire,

Only conduces to enforce the truth

That, thirty paces off, this natural blue

Broods o'er a bag of secrets, all unbroached,

Beneath the bosom of the placid deep,

Since first the Post Director sealed them safe;

And formidable I perceive this fact—