With leap and toss and high curvet,

And many a whirling somerset,

(Permitted by the modern muse

Expression technical to use)--These

mock the deftest rhymester's skill,

But poor in art, though rich in will.

The featest tumbler, stage bedight,

To thee is but a clumsy wight,

Who every limb and sinew strains

To do what costs thee little pains;