We fabricated and applied

To every cause which could be tried.

Oft have I quench’d man’s vital spark:

“The soul’s old cottage,” cold and dark,

Again, in spite of death, our grand ill,

Illumed as one would light a candle.[25]

Display’d a mode in Latin thesis

To pick the human frame to pieces;

The parts deposit by themselves,

Like mineral specimens on shelves;—