The politicians, in a nook apart,
Discuss’d the world, and settled all the spheres:
The wits watch’d every loophole for their art,
To introduce a bon mot, head and ears.
Small is the rest of those who would be smart.
A moment’s good thing may have cost them years
Before they find an hour to introduce it;
And then, even then, some bore may make them lose it.
But all was gentle and aristocratic
In this our party; polish’d, smooth, and cold,