Arise,  my  Jeftey  I  or  my  inkless  pen

Shall  never  blnnt  Its  edge  on  meaner  men  f

Till  thee  or  thine  mine  evil  eye  disesms,

Alas !  I  cannot  "strike  at  wretehed  kemes."

InhnnsL  Baxon  f  wilt  tbon  then  neign

A  mnse  and  heart  by  choice  so  wholly  thine  ?

Dear,  d«-d  contemner  of  my  schoolboy  songs,

BMt  thou  no  ▼engeanee  far  my  manhood's  wrongs  ?

If  naptOTOked  thou  onoe  oonldst  bid  me  bleed,

Hast  thou  no  weapon  for  my  daring  deed  ?

What !  not  a  word — and  am  I  then  so  low  ?

"Wilt  then  fevbear,  who  never  spared  a  fee  ^

Hast  llion  no  wrath,  or  wish  to  give  it  vent  ?

No  wits  for  nobles,  donees  by  deeeent  i

Nb  Jest  on  **  minors,"  qnibbles  on  a  name,

Nor  one  feoetiovs  paragraph  of  blame  ?

Is  it  for  this  OB  Ilion  I  have  stood,

And  thought  of  Homer  less  than  Holyrood  ?

On  ehors  of  Enxine  or  JBgean  sea,

My  hate,  untravell'd,  fondly  tamed  to  thee.
Ah !  let  me  cease !  in  vain  my  bosom  bums,

From  Oorydoa  nnkind  Alexixt  tnms :

Vhy  fhymes  are  vain ;  thy  Jeflrey  then  forego.
Nor  woo  that  anger  which  he  will  not  show.
Hec  plaenit  semd ;  h»c  deciee  repetita  plaoebit.
O  major  juvennm,  qnamvis  et  voce  patema
Fingerit  ad  rectum,  et  per  te  sapisi  hoc  tibi  dictum
Telle  memor :  certis  medium  et  tolerabile  rebus  •
Becte  concedi :  eonsultus  juris,  et  actor
C&usarum  mediocrisi  abest  virtute  diserti
Messals,  nee  scit  quantum  Coscellius  Aulus:
fled  tamen  in  prctio  est :  mediocribua  esse  poetis
Non  homines,  non  Dt,  non  concessere  columns.
