Now,--like you Croly's verse indeed-- In heaven--where one cannot read The "Warren" on a wall?

What think you here of that man's fame?

Tho' Jerdan magnified his name, To me 'tis very small!

XXII.

And, truly, is there such a spell In those three letters, L. E. L., To witch a world with song?

On clouds the Byron did not sit, Yet dar'd on Shakspeare's head to spit, And say the world was wrong!

XXIII.

And shall not we? Let's think aloud!

Thus being couch'd upon a cloud, Graham, we'll have our eyes!

We felt the great when we were less, But we'll retort on littleness Now we are in the skies.

XXIV.

O Graham, Graham, how I blame The bastard blush,--the petty shame, That used to fret me quite,-- The little sores I cover'd then, No sores on earth, nor sorrows when The world is out of sight!

XXV.

_My_ name is Tims.--I am the man That North's unseen diminish'd clan So scurvily abused!

I am the very P. A. Z.

The London's Lion's small pin's head So often hath refused!

XXVI.

Campbell--(you cannot see him here)-- Hath scorn'd my _lays_:--do his appear Such great eggs from the sky?-- And Longman, and his lengthy Co.

Long, only, in a little Row, Have thrust my poems by!

XXVII.

What else?--I'm poor, and much beset With damn'd small duns--that is--in debt Some grains of golden dust!

But only worth, above, is worth.-- What's all the credit of the earth?

An inch of cloth on trust?

XXVIII.

What's Rothschild here, that wealthy man!

Nay, worlds of wealth?--Oh, if you can Spy out,--the _Golden Ball_!

Sure as we rose, all money sank: What's gold or silver now?--the Bank Is gone--the 'Change and all!

XXIX.

What's all the ground-rent of the globe?-- Oh, Graham, it would worry Job To hear its landlords prate!

But after this survey, I think I'll ne'er be bullied more, nor shrink From men of large estate!

XXX.

And less, still less, will I submit To poor mean acres' worth of wit-- I that have heaven's span-- I that like Shakspeare's self may dream Beyond the very clouds, and seem An Universal Man!

XXXI.

Mark, Graham, mark those gorgeous crowds!

Like Birds of Paradise the clouds Are winging on the wind!

But what is grander than their range?

More lovely than their sunset change?-- The free creative mind!

XXXII.

Well! the Adults' School's in the air!

The greatest men are lesson'd there As well as the Lessee!

Oh could Earth's Ellistons thus small Behold the greatest stage of all, How humbled they would be!

XXXIII.

"Oh would some Power the giftie gie 'em, To see themselves as others see 'em,"

'Twould much abate their fuss!

If they could think that from the iskies They are as little in our eyes As they can think of us!

XXXIV.

Of us! are we gone out of sight?

Lessen'd! diminish'd! vanish'd quite!

Lost to the tiny town!

Beyond the Eagle's ken--the grope Of Dollond's longest telescope!

Graham! we're going down!

XXXV.

Ah me! I've touch'd a string that opes The airy valve!--the gas elopes-- Down goes our bright Balloon!-- Farewell the skies! the clouds! I smell The lower world! Graham, farewell, Man of the silken moon!

XXXVI.

The earth is close! the City nears-- Like a burnt paper it appears, Studded with tiny sparks!