And as bright as a burner Bude-lighted;

To others as dull, and dingy, and damp,

As any oleaginous lamp,

Of the regular old parochial stamp,

In a London fog benighted.

CCLVII.

To the loving, a bright and constant sphere,

That makes earth's commonest things appear

All poetic, romantic, and tender:

Hanging with jewels a cabbage-stump,