Of Time will cramp the nimblest toes;

And those that frisk'd in silken clocks

May look to limp in fleecy hose—

One only—(Champion of the ring)

Could ever make his Winter,—Spring!

XIII.

And gout, that owns no odds between

The toe of Czar and toe of Clown,

Will visit—but I did not mean

To moralize, though I am grown