Loring Pickering
(After Pope)
Here rests a writer, great but not immense,
Born destitute of feeling and of sense.
No power he but o’er his brain desired—
How not to suffer it to be inspired.
Ideas unto him were all unknown,
Proud of the words which, only, were his own.
So unreflecting, so confused his mind,
Torpid in error, indolently blind,
A fever Heaven to quicken him applied,
But rather than revive, the sluggard died.