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,