To make yourself particular, and tie

A tail on—a prodigious tail!—Oh, daughter!

And don’t he ask you down his area—fie!

And recommend to cut your being shorter,

With brick-bats round your neck in ponds of water?”

Alas! to think how readers thus may vary

A writer’s sense!—What mortal would have thought

Lorenzo’s hint about Professor Airy

And Pond to such a likeness could be brought!

Who would have dreamt the simple way he taught