To satire, praise, or hum’rous lines;
To elegies in mournful tone,
Or prologue sent from hand unknown;
Then rising with Aurora’s light,
The Muse invok’d, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine,
Enlarge, diminish, interline;
Be mindful, when invention fails,
To scratch your head and bite your nails.
Your poem finished, next your care