Can measured lines these various buildings show,
The Town-Hall Turning, or the Prospect Row?
Can I the seats of wealth and want explore,
And lengthen out my lays from door to door?"
No, good parson! how should you? I exclaimed to myself. You see the absurdity of your subject, and yet you rush into it. He who sung of the Greek Fleet certainly would never have thought of singing of Alley, Lane, or Street! What a difference from
"Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!"
Or—
"The man for wisdom's various arts renowned,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse, resound!"