So now “joy for ever,” and aye “thing of beauty”—
That is, till its outlines grow smoke-dried and sooty—
The obstruction erect, with the Griffin a-top,
Designed with the Bar situations to chop,
Is to stand, spite of those whose loud protests it smothers,
And subsist as “a refuge for lawyers and others.”
Moral.
If you chance to possess, in the confabulation
Of nobodies picked from the great Corporation,
Voice in measures that deal With the citizens’ weal,