What is he that sets their wrath to tuneful chimes?
See the lyric tongue swift tripping aid the furious party fighter!
See the men of wrath embrace the man of rhymes!
3.
Hear the plea whereby the poet helps the swaggering patriot-aper—
“We are they whose fathers never failed in fight.”
And the clamour of the Club-room and the prating of the Paper
Hail the vain and vapid vaunting with delight.
4.
Who will care to hear the poet when he turns a parrot screamer?