Some in the cellar view, perchance, on high,

Fair chimney chums on beds of mortar lie;

Enamour'd of the sympathetic clod,

Leaps the red bridegroom to the labourer's hod;

And up the ladder bears the workman, taught

To think he bears the bricks—mistaken thought!

A proof behold: if near the top they find

The nymphs or broken-corner'd or unkind,

Back to the base, 'resulting with a bound,'

They bear their bleeding carriers to the ground!