But i’ faith she had been wiser than me,
For she took a bottle to church.”
Robert Southey.
THE POET OF FASHION
HIS book is successful, he’s steeped in renown,
His lyric effusions have tickled the town;
Dukes, dowagers, dandies, are eager to trace
The fountain of verse in the verse-maker’s face;
While, proud as Apollo, with peers tête-à-tête,