In a tone rather gruff,
'No, thank you! one tumble's enough!'
DRURY'S DIRGE.
BY LAURA MATILDA.[31]
You praise our sires: but though they wrote with force,
Their rhymes were vicious, and their diction coarse:
We want their strength, agreed; but we atone
For that and more, by sweetness all our own.
Gifford.