Its use if asked, 'tis only said, A Baby-house to lodge the dead. Nor less beneath more genial skies The domes of pomp and folly rise, Whose sun through diamond windows streams, While gems and gold reflect his beams; Where tapestry clothes the storied wall, And fountains spout and waters fall; The peasant faints beneath his load, Nor tastes the grain his hands have sowed, While scarce a nation's wealth avails To raise thy Baby-house, Versailles. On British ground, of prince or peer; And naked stands the pictured wall; And treasured coins from distant lands Must feel the touch of sordid hands; Fall to the cry of Who bids most? That cheaper Baby-house is thine. LOGOGRIPH. FOR man's support I came at first from earth, The flowing lawn in stricter folds I hold, Such is my whole ;-but, parted and disjoined, The sweep Rialto forms, or your fair brow— The fault to youthful valour we allow ; A word by which possession we denote, A letter high in place and first in note; What guards the beauty from the scorching ray; Great Nature's rival, handmaid, sometimes foe; The most pathetic counterpart of "Oh!" The lamps unbought which light the houseless poor; What Bavius writes, what schoolboys love to eat; eager gamesters what decides the fate; The homely rough support of Britain's state; What guards the sailor from the shelving coast; The stage whence villains make their last harangue; What in your head and bones gives many a pang; What introduces long-tailed similes; A preposition that to place agrees; A stately animal in forests bred, A tree that lifts on high its lofty head; What best unbinds the weary student's mind |