Thou Zimmerman made practical!

Thou secret fountain of a Scottish style,

That, like the Nile,

Hideth its source wherever it is bred,

But still keeps disemboguing

(Not disembroguing)

Thro' such broad sandy mouths without a head!

Thou disembodied author—not yet dead,—

The whole world's literary Absentee!

Ah! wherefore hast thou fled,