Of ——'s imbecile review,

Whose page with adulation teems,

And makes me "beautifully blue."

But cockney praise is ebbing fast,

And Sappho's lute has lost its power,

And surely my career is past

Like Summer's brightest, loveliest flower.

Arcades ambo, Moore and me

Are Delia Crusca's sweetest doves,

And ours too is the poetry