Narcissus is a danger to the State,

And Echo hardly less. Vain-glorious crime;

That pestilent portent of a morbid time,

Would flourish less could sense or law avail

To strangle coarse Sensation's clamorous tale,

Silence the "Noisy Nymph," for half crime's ill

Would end were babbling Echo's voice but still.


"THE MISSING CIPHER."