Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.

Parody

As when an alderman just dubb’d a knight,

Doth his fat comrades to a feast invite;

His eager hand uplifts the deep tureen,

Beneath whose lid the smoking turtle’s seen;

Around the chair the ready waiters roll,

To fill the plate of every hungry soul.

O’er all the room the grateful odours spread,

And nods with pleasure every civic head;