Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky,
How beautiful is night!”
Amongst the “Paper Money Lyrics” contained in the poems of Thomas Love Peacock, there is an imitation of these lines, commencing—
“How troublesome is day!
It calls us from our sleep away;
It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake,
And sends us forth to keep or break
Our promises to pay.
How troublesome is day!”
The poem deals with questions of Banking, paper money, and other very unpoetical topics:—