The guests are mute as if upon their beds;

Their hair uncurl’d hangs from their listening heads.

By the verses as they flow,

By their meaning nothing though,

Full of tropes and flowers;

By those lofty rhymes that dwell

In the mind of Bunn[43] so well,

Like love in Paphian bowers.

By the lines that he has made,

Working at the poet’s trade—