With arms, and George, and Brunswick, crowd the verse,

Rend with tremendous sounds your cars asunder,

With drum, gun, trumpet, blunderbuss, and thunder?

Then all your muse’s softer art display:

Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay,

Lull with Amelia’s liquid name the nine,

And sweetly flow through all the royal line.—Pope: Sat. I.

Remarkable examples are afforded by Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast, and The Bells of Edgar A. Poe.

IMITATION OF TIME AND MOTION.

When the merry bells ring round,