The task were nobler; but, alas, in vain,

Of audience few and unfit I complain,

Bull won’t believe in Southey’s verse and mine.

Arouse thee, John, involve in general doom

All who bid Wordsworth rise for Byron to make room.

Cruikskank’s Comic Almanack. 1846.

——:o:——

Billy Routing.

A Lyrical Ballad.

Fit subject for heroic story,