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Moore: Fragment
For though, by s6me unlucky miss,
He had not downwright seen the King,
He sent such hints through Viscount This,
To Marquis That, as clench'd the thing.
The same it was in science, arts,
The Drama, Books, MS. and printed—
Kean learn'd from Ned his cleverest parts,
And Scott's last work by him was hinted.
Childe Harold in the proofs he read,
And, here and there, infus'd some soul in't—
Nay, Davy's Lamp, till seen by Ned,
Had—odd enough—an awkward hole in't.
'Twas thus, all-doing and all-knowing,
Wit, statesman, boxer, chymist, singer,
Whatever was the best pye going,
In that Ned—trust him—had his finger.
THOMAS MOORE
A WYKEHAMIST'S ADDRESS TO
LEARNING
Oh, make me, Sphere-descended Queen,
A Bishop or at least a Dean.
p. N. SHUTTLE WORTH (afterwards Warden of New
College and Bishop of Chichester)
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