The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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Of the Sublime, Luminous, and Profound, in Modern Poetry.
How I rejoic'd when the Sclavonian BatPopt from the Zenith in a slip-shod hat!
Then, while athwart my steed the ostler's haste
A Yorkshire pudding for a saddle plac'd,
On my pacific pair of boots I drew
That in the twilight of Gambadoes grew;
And ere yon squint-ey'd planet gave the hint
To pickle pancakes in Geneva print,
Or ere Tantides would his task forego
To crop rheumatic Sprouts from Nestor's toe,
A Roman Coach drove o'er my logic nose,
And green Iniquity grew ripe in prose.—
'Twas then from Hypochondres' concave bounds
Up-flew this whirlwind of prophetic sounds:
“When Polyphemus shall a sempstress turn,
“And icicles like lighted flambeaux burn;
“When Broad Saint Giles's shall ascend the sky,
“And Grosv'nor-square be fill'd with apple-pye;
“When South-America shakes hands with Greece,
“When Castles in the Air are let on lease;
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“When Rhadamanthus steeps his wig in suds;
“When Sir John Lade shall guide Apollo's Car,
“And Hamlet's Ghost get drunk with Doctor ------;
“When with red herrings teems the Grand Canal,
“When Neptune drives a gig along Pall-Mall,
“When the Sun's orb wants lustre, when the sky
“Wants stars, and Eldon wants Integrity;
“'Mongst the budge doctors of her rev'rend fold
“When wond'ring Lambeth sees Tom Paine enroll'd;
“When Billington shall warble heathen Greek,
“When Sheridan grows dull, and H---y meek;
“When pickled sturgeon from the stars shall drop,
“When Bonaparte keeps a chandler's shop;
“When Beaver broad humility denotes,
“When physic finds its way down Doctors' throats;
“When Epic Bays emblazon B---'s scull,
“When Mother Shipton shaves the Great Mogul;
“When Howard grows enamour'd of small-beer,
“And when Jack Ketch is made an Irish Peer;
“When sucking pigs shall sing in every grove,
“And Oysters fatten in a Rumford Stove;
“When Farthing Candles are for Toothpicks sold,
“And Gingerbread is worth its weight in Gold—
“Men shall be honest, Women hold their peace,
“Sin shut up shop, and Cuckold-making cease.”
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