'While Poesy,' with these delightful doxies,

'Sustains her part' in all the 'upper' boxes!

'Thus lifted gloriously, you'll soar along,'

Borne in the vast balloon of Busby's song;

'Shine in your farce, masque, scenery, and play'

(For this last line George had a holiday).

'Old Drury never, never soar'd so high,'

So says the manager, and so say I.

'But hold,' you say, 'this self-complacent boast;'

Is this the poem which the public lost?