To Mr. Pye

On his Carmen Seculare (a title which has by various persons who have heard it, been thus translated, 'A Poem an age long').

Your poem must eternal be, Eternal! it can't fail, For 'tis incomprehensible, And without head or tail!

First published in Morning Post, Jan. 24, 1800. Included in Keepsake, 1829, p. 277. First collected P. and D. W., ii. 161.

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