Aided by thee—but whither do I stray?—

Court, city, borough, own thy sovereign sway;

An age of puffs an age of gold succeeds,

And windy bubbles are the spawn it breeds.

If such thy power, O hear the Muse's prayer!

Swell thy loud lungs and wave thy wings of air;

Spread, viewless giant, all thy arms of mist

Like windmill-sails to bring the poet grist;

As erst thy roaring son, with eddying gale,

Whirl'd Orithyia from her native vale—