His opponents’ wrong, the proud “Pam’s” contumely,

The pangs of jealous hate: the long delays,

The insolence of scoffers and the turns

The patient Frenchman saw this project take,

While he his channel still successful made—

Unlike Sir Watkin! Oh, if ’twas hard to bear

The grudged four millions during Dizzy’s life

(That give but doubtful ’vantage since his death),

An undiscovered boon from which we get

No adequate returns, this puzzle o’ Will’s