Imitated From Aristophanes

(Nubes 315, 317.)

+megalai theai andrasin argois, haiper gnômên kai dialexin kai noun hêmin parechousi kai terateian kai perilexin kai krousin kai katalêpsin+

For the ancients . . . had their glittering VAPORS, which (as the comic poet tells us) fed a host of sophists.

Great goddesses are they to lazy folks, Who pour down on us gifts of fluent speech, Sense most sententious, wonderful fine effect, And how to talk about it and about it, Thoughts brisk as bees, and pathos soft and thawy.

1817. First published in The Friend, 1818, iii. 179; 1850, iii. 138. First collected 1893.

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Let clumps of earth, however glorified, Roll round and round and still renew their cycle-- Man rushes like a winged Cherub through The infinite space, and that which has been Can therefore never be again----

1820. First published from an MS. in 1893.

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