And nought is everything, and everything is nought.

IX.

Sons of Parnassus! whom I view above,

Not laurel-crown’d, but clad in rusty black;

Not spurring Pegasus through Tempè’s grove,

But pacing Grub-street on a jaded hack;

What reams of foolscap, while your brains ye rack,

Ye mar to make again! for sure, ere long,

Condemn’d to tread the bard’s time-sanction’d track,

Ye all shall join the bailiff-haunted throng,