ODE TO M. BRUNEL.
“Well said, old Mole! canst work i’ the dark so fast? a worthy pioneer!”—HAMLET.
WELL!——Monsieur Brunel,
How prospers now thy mighty undertaking,
To join by a hollow way the Bankside friends
Of Rotherhithe, and Wapping,—
Never be stopping,
But poking, groping, in the dark deep making