STILL I love to rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wander Far from the commoner way;Old-time trills and falls by the brook-side still do I ponder, Dreaming to-morrow to-day.
Come here, come, revive me, Sun-God, teach me, Apollo, Measures descanted before;Since I ancient verses, I emulous follow, Prints in the marbles of yore.
Still strange, strange, they sound in old-young raiment invested, Songs for the brain to forget -Young song-birds elate to grave old temples benested Piping and chirruping yet.
Thoughts? No thought has yet unskilled attempted to flutter Trammelled so vilely in verse;He who writes but aims at fame and his bread and his butter, Won with a groan and a curse.
