Brushing with hasty steps the dew away,
And take his seedy walk across the lawn.”)
All else is hush’d!—the Spider here has made
His web o’er books in many a mould’ring heap;
And on the shelf till next October laid
Euclid and Wood and Aristotle sleep!
Togatus.
The Gownsman. Cambridge, January 7, 1831.
Woes of Change,
or
The Lachrymatory Lament
of
Laudator Temporis (et Rerum) Acti.
By Thomas Dibdin, Esq.