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My wife untoward time * compel To thingi most unpoetical , While bratlings chorus forth a knell To love ' s romance ; And Christmas bills or Quarter dav , Without the slightest meana to pay—Nor e * enough to run away ; Must trust to chance .
Alas ! that souls by nature born For happiness , should weep forlorn , Yet will these doggrels I'll be sworn Go deep to many ; Who'll feel with me , and as they read Bethink them of their worldly need , And projects that like tadpoles breed , Not worth a penny !
Book-critics are dark churchyard knaves , Of party , pelf , or fashion , slaves ; Oft digging poets' early graves And tolling death-bells ; Book-seller 6 are the greediest screws , Book-readers are like rows of shoes To whom we give the feet and •* blues ;" Book-buyers , —angels !
But tho' by Critics , ruin'd—done ! Give me a nice broil'd brisket bone , And half-fill'd bottle , I'll not moan My fortune vile ; And tho' condemn e d to read and write From day to day , from night to ni ^ ht , Puffs , pamphlets , songs , and lies indite , Still , still , I'll smile !
Ye gentlemen who live in case , To eat and drink , sleep , snore , and sneeze , The griping care * your Author sees Ye cannot know , No more than ye can guess the pain , The labour , and the little £ ain Of him who wanders o ' er the main Where storms do blow .
Chorus . Where the stormy wind * do blow , &c . ( X O .
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/27/