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,