Here vice and folly hold their court,

Here all the martial band parade,

To vanquish—some unguarded maid:

Here ambles many a dauntless chief,

Who can, O great beyond belief!

Who can, as sage historians say,

Defeat—whole bottles in array.

Heavens! shall a servile dastard train

The mansions of our dead prophane,

A herd of undistinguished things,