Who to eloquence threw all a hero could give,
And died—that a thousand orations might live!
Where youthful Demosthenes, famous to be,
With pebbles for troches, harangued the whole sea;
While only himself and the wild breezes heard,
And the ocean, though masculine, got the last word;
How bad old Ulysses, on water and land,
Showed how an old robber could even be grand;
Where grim old Diogenes comfort defied,
And lived—a tub full of the meanest of pride;