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