Chapter_564

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We learn from Horace, “Homer sometimes sleeps;”

We feel without him⁠—Wordsworth sometimes wakes⁠—

To show with what complacency he creeps,

With his dear “Waggoners,” around his lakes.

He wishes for “a boat” to sail the deeps⁠—

Of Ocean?⁠—No, of air; and then he makes

Another outcry for “a little boat,”

And drivels seas to set it well afloat.