Sober, steadfast, and demure,
Clad in a coat of clumsy size,
Of double drab or knotted frieze,
O’er which is drawn the warm surtout
With flourish’d girdle bound about;
Thy vacant forehead broad and fat,
Shadow’d beneath the round-cropp’d hat.
Sweet power of Thistle-whipping, hail!
Whom in a solitary vale
To prone-eyed Dulness long of yore