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The puny minstrel's scrawl-devouring pet;
Well-pawed preserver of pellucid trash,
On thy smooth leaves, what tinkling phrenzies flash!
Or thumb'd by blues, or filled by Lady Lamb,
A rhyme-stuffed bundle of pedantic sham:—
Yes! though thy scented page such rhyme contains,
As hourly dolts ink there in doltish strains:
Each morning ass must sit and drop the cream
Of zig-zag verse to load the wire-wove ream:—
'Tis done!—“An Ode upon a death-bed sigh,”
Or, “Stanzas on my Uncle's squinting eye;”—
“What pathos here!” the circling Cruscas cry.
“This was written in Lady Lamb's Album;”—“Taken from Lady Lamb's Album;”—“His Lordship wrote the following so and so in Lady Caroline's” Album;—“The preceding ‘Stanzas on Female Frailty,’ were written by her Ladyship in her own Album.” Such are the constant advertisements in almost every Annual, &c. we now take up. One would positively think, that Lady Caroline was—but—never mind—“comparisons are odious.”
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