XXIV + 

But, O ye tomes without compare, + 

Which from the devil’s bookcase start, + 

Albums magnificent which scare + 

The fashionable rhymester’s heart! + 

Yea! although rendered beauteous + 

By Tolstoy’s pencil marvellous, + 

Though Baratynski verses penned, + 

The thunderbolt on you descend! + 

Whene’er a brilliant courtly dame + 

Presents her quarto amiably, + 

Despair and anger seize on me, + 

And a malicious epigram + 

Trembles upon my lips from spite⁠— + 

And madrigals I’m asked to write! + 