Though Volney undertook to do it
He wanted science to go through it.[33]
But we can let your worships know
Which way, next year the wind will blow,
And indicate without verbosity,
The measure of its mean velocity.
We gagg’d sage Darwin’s polar bear,
And would not let him “vomit air;”[34]
Thus spoil’d the Boreal ventilator,
And made a vacuum at the equator.