•   MAY the Babylonish curse
    Straight confound my stammering verse,
    If I can a passage see
    In this word-perplexity,
    Or a fit expression find,
    Or a language to my mind
    (Still the phrase is wide or scant),
    To take leave of thee, GREAT PLANT!
    Or in any terms relate
    Half my love, or half my hate;
    For I hate, yet love,...