Our gravity was all a hoax,—

Our sober sayings only jokes—

'Twas but a trick to gain his pelf,

And lay the Conj'ror on the shelf,

That he might be as much forgotten

As tho' in earnest dead and rotten;

And thereby fill with consternation

The ancient female population.

To prove this true, they say that Moore,

Who, they assert, is not "NO MORE,"