ABSTRACT
See sing-song ditties bribe the full-grown child, *In foolscap octaves ‘Poems’ gravely styl’d; See now simplicity disjoin’d from sense To Nature’s accent urge the mad pretence; Pale Learning, stedfast to her classic page, Unheeded toiling brands a trifling age; †Moderns in Chronicles for wisdom seek, Odes yield to ballads, to black-letter Greek.
