The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Pale moon, what inspiration gleams from thee,
When lunatics invoke thee on thy sea!—
Thou sun, how oft do poetasters dream
And liquidate their verse beneath thy beam,—
Till well-bred clouds, arrested in the skies,
Loll there, enchanted with poetic sighs!!—
Sometimes, the bardling's bosom fails to burn,
Alas! then, all his fainting couplets yearn;
While Landon epithets bedaub the line,
And florid whimsies frame the dogg'rel fine;—
He splits a meaning from each fractured word,
Spins out the period, till the thought's absurd,
Piles pretty nothings on a see-saw theme,
Unfolds a shadow, and dissects a beam—
The verse is flowing, and the sound sublime,
While Pathos struts in sentimental slime!
When lunatics invoke thee on thy sea!—
Thou sun, how oft do poetasters dream
And liquidate their verse beneath thy beam,—
Till well-bred clouds, arrested in the skies,
Loll there, enchanted with poetic sighs!!—
Sometimes, the bardling's bosom fails to burn,
Alas! then, all his fainting couplets yearn;
While Landon epithets bedaub the line,
And florid whimsies frame the dogg'rel fine;—
He splits a meaning from each fractured word,
Spins out the period, till the thought's absurd,
Piles pretty nothings on a see-saw theme,
Unfolds a shadow, and dissects a beam—
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While Pathos struts in sentimental slime!
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