One’s safe from any hiss!
VIII.
Ah! who can paint that first great awful night,
Big with a blessing or a blight,
When the poor Dramatist, all fume and fret,
Fuss, fidget, fancy, fever, funking, fright,
Ferment, fault-fearing, faintness—more f’s yet:
Flushed, frigid, flurried, flinching, fitful, flat,—
Add famished, fuddled, and fatigued, to that;
Funeral, fate-foreboding—sits in doubt,