Unless we blunder, to our cost,
And break our heads against a post!
Though Darwin, thinking to dismay us,
Made dreadful clattering in chaos,
And form’d, with horrid quakes t’ assist him,
His new exploded solar system.[46]
Though Volney, having in his view,
First peer’d our continent through and through,[47]
Left us a specimen of the quality
Of graduated French morality.[48]