M—SS—P, attach'd to military plan,
Still kept his eye fix'd on his right-hand man:
Whilst the mouth measures words with seeming skill,
The right hand labours, and the left lies still.
For he resolv'd on scripture-grounds to go,
What the right doth, the left hand shall not know.
With studied impropriety of speech,
He soars beyond the hackney critic's reach;
To epithets allots emphatic state,
Whilst principals, ungrac'd, like lacquies wait;
In ways first trodden by himself excels,
And stands alone in indeclinables:
Conjunction, preposition, adverb, join
To stamp new vigour on the nervous line:
In monosyllables his thunders roll,
He, she, it, and, we, ye, they fright the soul.