Elizabeth

1829

Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
In thy own book that first thy name be writ,
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
And I have other reasons for so doing

Besides my innate love of contradiction;
Each poet — if a poet — in pursuing
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
Has studied very little of his part,

Read nothing, written less — in short's a fool
Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
Being ignorant of one important rule,
Employed in even the theses of the school —

Called — I forget the heathenish Greek name
[Called anything, its meaning is the same]
"Always write first things uppermost in the heart."

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