Reforms I wrought untiring,

With Gog and Magog squiring,

And Frosticos, my bosom friend, who lent a legal mind.

“For last superb achievement,—bright tears may Envy shed!—

I built a bridge, from Africa to distant England spread:

No edifice of fable,

Nay, not the Tower of Babel,

Surpassed its mammoth glory in the heavens overhead.

“So back across its noble arch my retinue and I

Advanced with blaring trumpets through the regions of the sky.