Being a sign of age—some gray appear'd,

Mingling with duskier brown its warnings pale;

But yet, not so poetic as when Time

Comes like Jack Frost, and whitens it in rime.

V.

Ben Ali took the hint, and much did vex

His royal bosom that he had no son,

No living child of the more noble sex,

To stand in his Morocco shoes—not one

To make a negro-pollard—or tread necks