Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

Nor thro' Lanes a compass take,

As if fear'd some Trespass to commit,

When the wide Air's a Road for it.

So the Imperial Eagle does not stay

'Till the whole Carcass he devour,

That's fall'n into his Pow'r,

As if his gen'rous Hunger understood,

That he can never want Plenty of Food;

He only sucks the tasteful Blood,

And to fresh Game flies cheerfully away,