Where'er GRAY's well-named "little triflers" throng,

Who, verily unmindful of their doom,

He watched from forth his grubby haunts of gloom,

And strove by sinister device to lure,

Till, 'midst his viscous mazes once secure,

Them he might seize and suck.

The Birds, the Boar,

The Lion, or the Bull, all whom before

Great Herschelles had tackled, were not worse

Than the Colossal Spider, Albion's curse,