The very lofty and the very small—

Showest the plumbless Bunn the way to kick—

Keepest a Williams for thy veriest stick—

Seest a Vestris in her sweetest moments,

Without the danger of newspaper comments—

Tellest Macready, as none dared before,

Thine open mind from the half-open door!—

(Alas! I fear he has left Melpomene's crown,

To be a Boniface in Buxton town!)—

Thou hold'st the watch, as half-price people know,