VII.

Jemmy, lo! to sudden fate,

(Pass the wine—the liquor’s good)

Half of thy year we consecrate:

The web is now what was the wood,

But mark the scene beneath the senate’s height

See the petition’s crowded skirts unroll;

Visions of glory spare my aching sight,

Unborn commencements crowd not on my soul,

No more our Kaye,[62] our Thackeray[62], we bewail;