The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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O'er all the land presides a strumpet muse,
And every mouth poetic garbage spews;
But say,—besides a law-suit,—what is worse
Than jumbling brains spawned out in addled verse?
How soon the metromania fires?—a fly,—
Miscarried beetles claim an elegy;
Who cannot weave a stanza on a louse,
Or like a Vaughan, immortalize a mouse?—
For bards ephem'ral deem it real divine,
To ram rich nonsense in a jingling line!
And every mouth poetic garbage spews;
But say,—besides a law-suit,—what is worse
Than jumbling brains spawned out in addled verse?
How soon the metromania fires?—a fly,—
Miscarried beetles claim an elegy;
Who cannot weave a stanza on a louse,
Or like a Vaughan, immortalize a mouse?—
For bards ephem'ral deem it real divine,
To ram rich nonsense in a jingling line!
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