New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-10
FpIsy1E no NIX. 4LEXANDER POPE.


From The JGHCSS G0zfte.
17ro,, mortal Gratitude, decide, my Pope
I've WIts Immortal more TO fear or hopet
Mis- toll AID travail round the Plant OF tal4e'
Their Works its Garden, and It's CROWN 'Hel -Ai''
Then Commentators III unWleluy D' ~, ,...,,oo
Freak down the Barriers Of the TRIM Peas"nce'
Pursue the Poet ike Aeteonis o dS Gron4ds.
Rend RON the singing Robes each borrower ~'Hi'
.lenl from the lauTcld 3rOws me DItucH'
and If one Rag OF Character they spare
Comes the Bographer, ana stFlpS IL O"i0'
srcb. Pope has been thy Fortune, such Thy Doom.
swift the Ghouls gathered at the Poets Iomoi
With Dust Of Notes to clog each lordly Inc,
Warburton, Warrior, Croker, Bo"ies, SolhOlNo'
Collecting Cackle, Johnson cOhUestcuus
10 interview the Drudges OF your Ilei,Us',
EIoqraphers un BOswel-like, nave shteIcI;
And Ounces edit him whom Dances leaIo"'
7-,ev cav. what say they 2 Not in vain You ask
10 tel you what they say, behold my TASK
As repeat " the horrid things they say
f,,mos II n first fancy youll agree
Nor f~snzied Dennis smote so zen as ne
IiHe iChnrcnPs Cudgerst marked with Leland Lei
.1oo1pll 70 know what his own system meant,
Pone vet was skilled Treasons to invent
Snake that Pnied h fdr snc a'i little Ends
lis mind like Flesh intamed, was raw anu
OF i'm Quarrel. never in the Nsat, at.
Ills spirit sank when lie was called 20 lo""
80 i'm the darkness mining Ike Moe
I,,ITgcd on Himself, as from himself ne sto,c'
And what for Caryll once he ieigned 10 Ieel,
Sill he denied the Letters he had writ
Ana s,ill uistOok Gndecency for VII
IN! nj t'i5 the Reader and al times dehes >"
F,erce Fin thus: No Line escapes his Rage
Ana furious Foot-no,es growl neaA every I"so'
Zee st-ph-n next take up the wofu Tale, r.on
proloug the Preaching and DrOtract the N"i CT
. Some forage Falseh0ods from the North ana south,
Bnt pope poor D---l lied from Hand to Mouths
Affected, hypOcritical, aud vain,
a Book in breeches ana Fop IN cram
A Fox that found not the high Clusters souri,
The Fanfaron Of Vice beyond his power, ..o..,
POPE Vet possessed 1.-THE Praise viii make you starry
+" Mean morbid vain, he yet posses sea hearV'
Aud ill war
Admire his finish aud applaud his SKIN -
Frerpai strains, nor rounds the Cape OF storm.
Fyeu so Pope strOve nor ever crossed inc AAHc'
That from the Noble separates the Ilhe -!
The learned thus, and who can quite reply.
Reverse the JUDGMENT and ketort the lie !
You Reap. in arme Hates that haunt your name me
Reap what you sowed, the Dragons Teeth OF tahe'
trust for the wreath that crowns the lofty Rhyme
You SIN must fight retreat, attack: defend,
And OFT TO snatch a Laurel. lose Friend
The Pity oft! Aud the changing Taste
ii changing Time leaves half your work waste
And songht for Homer IN the Prose OF Bohn
Stili through the dust of that dim Prose appears
The flight OF arrows aud the Sheen OF Spears
stIl we nav trace what lie irts heroic fecl,
And hear the Bronze that 9uriies On me Steei'
hui an your Had seems hali-pretence 49,
Where Wits, not heroes prove ther SKIN in Fence
And great Achilles E0quence dom show
AS If 30 Centaur trained him, but Boieau
A.aln your verse is orderly and more,
. the Waves behind impel the Waves before;"
Monotonously musical they glide, ~
But turn to Homer How his Verses sweep!
surge answers Surge and Deep doth call on Deepi
'This Line In foam and thunder Issues forth,
SDuryed By the West or smitten by tire NORTH,
The next with silver murmur dies away,
Like Tides that fater 70 Calypso's Day!
Tins Time with sordd Alchemy and dread,
Turns half the Glory OF your Gold 10 Lead
'hus Time-at Ronsards wreath that yainly Bit
Has married the poet TO preserve the Wit,
Who almost left Addison a stain,
who's knife cut cleauest with poisoned palm
tbou strange Fate that cling- TO all OF Thine
IEben most a Wit dOst most Poet shine.
I'm Poetry thy Duuciad expires
When vii mas shO her mOmontary fires"
,'r,s Tragedy that watches 10y the Bed,
.VLere taWdry Yellow strOge with dirty Ked,'
Aud Mem remembering ALL can scarce deny
10 idJ ''' A ANDREW LANG
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