To raise a special mound

Above the level ground

That you may sun yourself upon the sloping earth

And, like the wicked, wax to an uncommon girth.

But it is not your vast circumference

That stirs this passing strain;

I would not sing although, to move you hence,

They fetched their biggest crane;

It is that men should shovel tons of that

Into the maws of some capacious vat,