O! should I ever dare profane
With venal touch the hallow'd lyre,
Let me be banish'd from the Muses' train;
Ne'er let me feel their heart-ennobling fire!
Unworthy of a Poet's glorious name,
Let me be doom'd to everlasting shame!
LONDON:
A. H. BAILEY AND CO., 83, CORNHILL;
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH;
AND CUMMING AND CO., DUBLIN.