'Tis not the spot which Tommy Moore
Praised in "The Meeting of the Waters."
Avoca's Vale my soul would bore;
I should prefer more lively quarters.
Thy "little spot," Eliza Cook,
Means merely patriotic flummery;
And Coleridge's "hidden brook"
Won't fetch me, e'en when weather's summery.
I hold the Picturesque is rot,
"Love in a Cot" means scraps for dinner;