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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Peter Bell the Third, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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+Title: Peter Bell the Third
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+Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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+Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4697]
+Posting Date: January 20, 2010
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PETER BELL THE THIRD ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Sue Asscher
+
+
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+
+
+PETER BELL THE THIRD.
+
+By Miching Mallecho
+
+
+
+ Is it a party in a parlour,
+ Crammed just as they on earth were crammed,
+ Some sipping punch--some sipping tea;
+ But, as you by their faces see,
+ All silent, and all--damned!
+ "Peter Bell", by W. WORDSWORTH.
+
+ OPHELIA.--What means this, my lord?
+ HAMLET.--Marry, this is Miching Mallecho; it means mischief.
+ SHAKESPEARE.
+
+
+
+
+DEDICATION.
+
+TO THOMAS BROWN, ESQ., THE YOUNGER, H.F.
+
+DEAR TOM--Allow me to request you to introduce Mr. Peter Bell to the
+respectable family of the Fudges. Although he may fall short of those
+very considerable personages in the more active properties which
+characterize the Rat and the Apostate, I suspect that even you, their
+historian, will confess that he surpasses them in the more peculiarly
+legitimate qualification of intolerable dulness.
+
+You know Mr. Examiner Hunt; well--it was he who presented me to two of
+the Mr. Bells. My intimacy with the younger Mr. Bell naturally sprung
+from this introduction to his brothers. And in presenting him to you, I
+have the satisfaction of being able to assure you that he is
+considerably the dullest of the three.
+
+There is this particular advantage in an acquaintance with any one of
+the Peter Bells, that if you know one Peter Bell, you know three Peter
+Bells; they are not one, but three; not three, but one. An awful
+mystery, which, after having caused torrents of blood, and having been
+hymned by groans enough to deafen the music of the spheres, is at length
+illustrated to the satisfaction of all parties in the theological world,
+by the nature of Mr. Peter Bell.
+
+Peter is a polyhedric Peter, or a Peter with many sides. He changes
+colours like a chameleon, and his coat like a snake. He is a Proteus of
+a Peter. He was at first sublime, pathetic, impressive, profound; then
+dull; then prosy and dull; and now dull--oh so very dull! it is an
+ultra-legitimate dulness.
+
+You will perceive that it is not necessary to consider Hell and the
+Devil as supernatural machinery. The whole scene of my epic is in 'this
+world which is'--so Peter informed us before his conversion to "White
+Obi"--
+
+     'The world of all of us, AND WHERE
+     WE FIND OUR HAPPINESS, OR NOT AT ALL.'
+
+Let me observe that I have spent six or seven days in composing this
+sublime piece; the orb of my moonlike genius has made the fourth part of
+its revolution round the dull earth which you inhabit, driving you mad,
+while it has retained its calmness and its splendour, and I have been
+fitting this its last phase 'to occupy a permanent station in the
+literature of my country.'
+
+Your works, indeed, dear Tom, sell better; but mine are far superior.
+The public is no judge; posterity sets all to rights.
+
+Allow me to observe that so much has been written of Peter Bell, that
+the present history can be considered only, like the Iliad, as a
+continuation of that series of cyclic poems, which have already been
+candidates for bestowing immortality upon, at the same time that they
+receive it from, his character and adventures. In this point of view I
+have violated no rule of syntax in beginning my composition with a
+conjunction; the full stop which closes the poem continued by me being,
+like the full stops at the end of the Iliad and Odyssey, a full stop of
+a very qualified import.
+
+Hoping that the immortality which you have given to the Fudges, you will
+receive from them; and in the firm expectation, that when London shall
+be an habitation of bitterns; when St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey
+shall stand, shapeless and nameless ruins, in the midst of an unpeopled
+marsh; when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of
+islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken
+arches on the solitary stream, some transatlantic commentator will be
+weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of
+criticism, the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges, and their
+historians. I remain, dear Tom, yours sincerely,
+
+MICHING MALLECHO.
+
+December 1, 1819.
+
+P.S.--Pray excuse the date of place; so soon as the profits of the
+publication come in, I mean to hire lodgings in a more respectable
+street.
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE.
+
+ Peter Bells, one, two and three,
+ O'er the wide world wandering be.--
+ First, the antenatal Peter,
+ Wrapped in weeds of the same metre,
+ The so-long-predestined raiment                                 5
+ Clothed in which to walk his way meant
+ The second Peter; whose ambition
+ Is to link the proposition,
+ As the mean of two extremes--
+ (This was learned from Aldric's themes)                         10
+ Shielding from the guilt of schism
+ The orthodoxal syllogism;
+ The First Peter--he who was
+ Like the shadow in the glass
+ Of the second, yet unripe,                                      15
+ His substantial antitype.--
+
+ Then came Peter Bell the Second,
+ Who henceforward must be reckoned
+ The body of a double soul,
+ And that portion of the whole                                   20
+ Without which the rest would seem
+ Ends of a disjointed dream.--
+ And the Third is he who has
+ O'er the grave been forced to pass
+ To the other side, which is,--                                  25
+ Go and try else,--just like this.
+
+ Peter Bell the First was Peter
+ Smugger, milder, softer, neater,
+ Like the soul before it is
+ Born from THAT world into THIS.                                 30
+ The next Peter Bell was he,
+ Predevote, like you and me,
+ To good or evil as may come;
+ His was the severer doom,--
+ For he was an evil Cotter,                                      35
+ And a polygamic Potter.
+ And the last is Peter Bell,
+ Damned since our first parents fell,
+ Damned eternally to Hell--
+ Surely he deserves it well!                                     40
+
+
+
+
+PART 1. DEATH.
+
+ 1.
+ And Peter Bell, when he had been
+ With fresh-imported Hell-fire warmed,
+ Grew serious--from his dress and mien
+ 'Twas very plainly to be seen
+ Peter was quite reformed.                                       5
+
+ 2.
+ His eyes turned up, his mouth turned down;
+ His accent caught a nasal twang;
+ He oiled his hair; there might be heard
+ The grace of God in every word
+ Which Peter said or sang.                                       10
+
+ 3.
+ But Peter now grew old, and had
+ An ill no doctor could unravel:
+ His torments almost drove him mad;--
+ Some said it was a fever bad--
+ Some swore it was the gravel.                                   15
+
+ 4.
+ His holy friends then came about,
+ And with long preaching and persuasion
+ Convinced the patient that, without
+ The smallest shadow of a doubt,
+ He was predestined to damnation.                                20
+
+ 5.
+ They said--'Thy name is Peter Bell;
+ Thy skin is of a brimstone hue;
+ Alive or dead--ay, sick or well--
+ The one God made to rhyme with hell;
+ The other, I think, rhymes with you.                            25
+
+ 6.
+ Then Peter set up such a yell!--
+ The nurse, who with some water gruel
+ Was climbing up the stairs, as well
+ As her old legs could climb them--fell,
+ And broke them both--the fall was cruel.                        30
+
+ 7.
+ The Parson from the casement lept
+ Into the lake of Windermere--
+ And many an eel--though no adept
+ In God's right reason for it--kept
+ Gnawing his kidneys half a year.                                35
+
+ 8.
+ And all the rest rushed through the door
+ And tumbled over one another,
+ And broke their skulls.--Upon the floor
+ Meanwhile sat Peter Bell, and swore,
+ And cursed his father and his mother;                           40
+
+ 9.
+ And raved of God, and sin, and death,
+ Blaspheming like an infidel;
+ And said, that with his clenched teeth
+ He'd seize the earth from underneath,
+ And drag it with him down to hell.                              45
+
+ 10.
+ As he was speaking came a spasm,
+ And wrenched his gnashing teeth asunder;
+ Like one who sees a strange phantasm
+ He lay,--there was a silent chasm
+ Between his upper jaw and under.                                50
+
+ 11.
+ And yellow death lay on his face;
+ And a fixed smile that was not human
+ Told, as I understand the case,
+ That he was gone to the wrong place:--
+ I heard all this from the old woman.                            55
+
+ 12.
+ Then there came down from Langdale Pike
+ A cloud, with lightning, wind and hail;
+ It swept over the mountains like
+ An ocean,--and I heard it strike
+ The woods and crags of Grasmere vale.                           60
+
+ 13.
+ And I saw the black storm come
+ Nearer, minute after minute;
+ Its thunder made the cataracts dumb;
+ With hiss, and clash, and hollow hum,
+ It neared as if the Devil was in it.                            65
+
+ 14.
+ The Devil WAS in it:--he had bought
+ Peter for half-a-crown; and when
+ The storm which bore him vanished, nought
+ That in the house that storm had caught
+ Was ever seen again.                                            70
+
+ 15.
+ The gaping neighbours came next day--
+ They found all vanished from the shore:
+ The Bible, whence he used to pray,
+ Half scorched under a hen-coop lay;
+ Smashed glass--and nothing more!                                75
+
+
+
+
+PART 2. THE DEVIL.
+
+ 1.
+ The Devil, I safely can aver,
+ Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting;
+ Nor is he, as some sages swear,
+ A spirit, neither here nor there,
+ In nothing--yet in everything.                                  80
+
+ 2.
+ He is--what we are; for sometimes
+ The Devil is a gentleman;
+ At others a bard bartering rhymes
+ For sack; a statesman spinning crimes;
+ A swindler, living as he can;                                   85
+
+ 3.
+ A thief, who cometh in the night,
+ With whole boots and net pantaloons,
+ Like some one whom it were not right
+ To mention;--or the luckless wight
+ From whom he steals nine silver spoons.                         90
+
+ 4.
+ But in this case he did appear
+ Like a slop-merchant from Wapping,
+ And with smug face, and eye severe,
+ On every side did perk and peer
+ Till he saw Peter dead or napping.                              95
+
+ 5.
+ He had on an upper Benjamin
+ (For he was of the driving schism)
+ In the which he wrapped his skin
+ From the storm he travelled in,
+ For fear of rheumatism.                                         100
+
+ 6.
+ He called the ghost out of the corse;--
+ It was exceedingly like Peter,--
+ Only its voice was hollow and hoarse--
+ It had a queerish look of course--
+ Its dress too was a little neater.                              105
+
+ 7.
+ The Devil knew not his name and lot;
+ Peter knew not that he was Bell:
+ Each had an upper stream of thought,
+ Which made all seem as it was not;
+ Fitting itself to all things well.                              110
+
+ 8.
+ Peter thought he had parents dear,
+ Brothers, sisters, cousins, cronies,
+ In the fens of Lincolnshire;
+ He perhaps had found them there
+ Had he gone and boldly shown his                                115
+
+ 9.
+ Solemn phiz in his own village;
+ Where he thought oft when a boy
+ He'd clomb the orchard walls to pillage
+ The produce of his neighbour's tillage,
+ With marvellous pride and joy.                                  120
+
+ 10.
+ And the Devil thought he had,
+ 'Mid the misery and confusion
+ Of an unjust war, just made
+ A fortune by the gainful trade
+ Of giving soldiers rations bad--                                125
+ The world is full of strange delusion--
+
+ 11.
+ That he had a mansion planned
+ In a square like Grosvenor Square,
+ That he was aping fashion, and
+ That he now came to Westmoreland                                130
+ To see what was romantic there.
+
+ 12.
+ And all this, though quite ideal,--
+ Ready at a breath to vanish,--
+ Was a state not more unreal
+ Than the peace he could not feel,                               135
+ Or the care he could not banish.
+
+ 13.
+ After a little conversation,
+ The Devil told Peter, if he chose,
+ He'd bring him to the world of fashion
+ By giving him a situation                                       140
+ In his own service--and new clothes.
+
+ 14.
+ And Peter bowed, quite pleased and proud,
+ And after waiting some few days
+ For a new livery--dirty yellow
+ Turned up with black--the wretched fellow                       145
+ Was bowled to Hell in the Devil's chaise.
+
+
+
+
+PART 3. HELL.
+
+ 1.
+ Hell is a city much like London--
+ A populous and a smoky city;
+ There are all sorts of people undone,
+ And there is little or no fun done;                             150
+ Small justice shown, and still less pity.
+
+ 2.
+ There is a Castles, and a Canning,
+ A Cobbett, and a Castlereagh;
+ All sorts of caitiff corpses planning
+ All sorts of cozening for trepanning                            155
+ Corpses less corrupt than they.
+
+ 3.
+ There is a ***, who has lost
+ His wits, or sold them, none knows which;
+ He walks about a double ghost,
+ And though as thin as Fraud almost--                            160
+ Ever grows more grim and rich.
+
+ 4.
+ There is a Chancery Court; a King;
+ A manufacturing mob; a set
+ Of thieves who by themselves are sent
+ Similar thieves to represent;                                   165
+ An army; and a public debt.
+
+ 5.
+ Which last is a scheme of paper money,
+ And means--being interpreted--
+ 'Bees, keep your wax--give us the honey,
+ And we will plant, while skies are sunny,                       170
+ Flowers, which in winter serve instead.'
+
+ 6.
+ There is a great talk of revolution--
+ And a great chance of despotism--
+ German soldiers--camps--confusion--
+ Tumults--lotteries--rage--delusion--                            175
+ Gin--suicide--and methodism;
+
+ 7.
+ Taxes too, on wine and bread,
+ And meat, and beer, and tea, and cheese,
+ From which those patriots pure are fed,
+ Who gorge before they reel to bed                               180
+ The tenfold essence of all these.
+
+ 8.
+ There are mincing women, mewing,
+ (Like cats, who amant misere,)
+ Of their own virtue, and pursuing
+ Their gentler sisters to that ruin,                             185
+ Without which--what were chastity?
+
+ 9.
+ Lawyers--judges--old hobnobbers
+ Are there--bailiffs--chancellors--
+ Bishops--great and little robbers--
+ Rhymesters--pamphleteers--stock-jobbers--                       190
+ Men of glory in the wars,--
+
+ 10.
+ Things whose trade is, over ladies
+ To lean, and flirt, and stare, and simper,
+ Till all that is divine in woman
+ Grows cruel, courteous, smooth, inhuman,                        195
+ Crucified 'twixt a smile and whimper.
+
+ 11.
+ Thrusting, toiling, wailing, moiling,
+ Frowning, preaching--such a riot!
+ Each with never-ceasing labour,
+ Whilst he thinks he cheats his neighbour,                       200
+ Cheating his own heart of quiet.
+
+ 12.
+ And all these meet at levees;--
+ Dinners convivial and political;--
+ Suppers of epic poets;--teas,
+ Where small talk dies in agonies;--                             205
+ Breakfasts professional and critical;
+
+ 13.
+ Lunches and snacks so aldermanic
+ That one would furnish forth ten dinners,
+ Where reigns a Cretan-tongued panic,
+ Lest news Russ, Dutch, or Alemannic                             210
+ Should make some losers, and some winners--
+
+ 45.
+ At conversazioni--balls--
+ Conventicles--and drawing-rooms--
+ Courts of law--committees--calls
+ Of a morning--clubs--book-stalls--                              215
+ Churches--masquerades--and tombs.
+
+
+ 15.
+ And this is Hell--and in this smother
+ All are damnable and damned;
+ Each one damning, damns the other;
+ They are damned by one another,                                 220
+ By none other are they damned.
+
+ 16.
+ 'Tis a lie to say, 'God damns'!
+ Where was Heaven's Attorney General
+ When they first gave out such flams?
+ Let there be an end of shams,                                   225
+ They are mines of poisonous mineral.
+
+ 17.
+ Statesmen damn themselves to be
+ Cursed; and lawyers damn their souls
+ To the auction of a fee;
+ Churchmen damn themselves to see                                230
+ God's sweet love in burning coals.
+
+ 18.
+ The rich are damned, beyond all cure,
+ To taunt, and starve, and trample on
+ The weak and wretched; and the poor
+ Damn their broken hearts to endure                              235
+ Stripe on stripe, with groan on groan.
+
+ 19.
+ Sometimes the poor are damned indeed
+ To take,--not means for being blessed,--
+ But Cobbett's snuff, revenge; that weed
+ From which the worms that it doth feed                          240
+ Squeeze less than they before possessed.
+
+ 20.
+ And some few, like we know who,
+ Damned--but God alone knows why--
+ To believe their minds are given
+ To make this ugly Hell a Heaven;                                245
+ In which faith they live and die.
+
+ 21.
+ Thus, as in a town, plague-stricken,
+ Each man be he sound or no
+ Must indifferently sicken;
+ As when day begins to thicken,                                  250
+ None knows a pigeon from a crow,--
+
+ 22.
+ So good and bad, sane and mad,
+ The oppressor and the oppressed;
+ Those who weep to see what others
+ Smile to inflict upon their brothers;                           255
+ Lovers, haters, worst and best;
+
+ 23.
+ All are damned--they breathe an air,
+ Thick, infected, joy-dispelling:
+ Each pursues what seems most fair,
+ Mining like moles, through mind, and there                      260
+ Scoop palace-caverns vast, where Care
+ In throned state is ever dwelling.
+
+
+
+
+PART 4. SIN.
+
+ 1.
+ Lo. Peter in Hell's Grosvenor Square,
+ A footman in the Devil's service!
+ And the misjudging world would swear                            265
+ That every man in service there
+ To virtue would prefer vice.
+
+ 2.
+ But Peter, though now damned, was not
+ What Peter was before damnation.
+ Men oftentimes prepare a lot                                    270
+ Which ere it finds them, is not what
+ Suits with their genuine station.
+
+ 3.
+ All things that Peter saw and felt
+ Had a peculiar aspect to him;
+ And when they came within the belt                              275
+ Of his own nature, seemed to melt,
+ Like cloud to cloud, into him.
+
+ 4.
+ And so the outward world uniting
+ To that within him, he became
+ Considerably uninviting                                         280
+ To those who, meditation slighting,
+ Were moulded in a different frame.
+
+ 5.
+ And he scorned them, and they scorned him;
+ And he scorned all they did; and they
+ Did all that men of their own trim                              285
+ Are wont to do to please their whim,
+ Drinking, lying, swearing, play.
+
+ 6.
+ Such were his fellow-servants; thus
+ His virtue, like our own, was built
+ Too much on that indignant fuss                                 290
+ Hypocrite Pride stirs up in us
+ To bully one another's guilt.
+
+ 7.
+ He had a mind which was somehow
+ At once circumference and centre
+ Of all he might or feel or know;                                295
+ Nothing went ever out, although
+ Something did ever enter.
+
+ 8.
+ He had as much imagination
+ As a pint-pot;--he never could
+ Fancy another situation,                                        300
+ From which to dart his contemplation,
+ Than that wherein he stood.
+
+ 9.
+ Yet his was individual mind,
+ And new created all he saw
+ In a new manner, and refined                                    305
+ Those new creations, and combined
+ Them, by a master-spirit's law.
+
+ 10.
+ Thus--though unimaginative--
+ An apprehension clear, intense,
+ Of his mind's work, had made alive                              310
+ The things it wrought on; I believe
+ Wakening a sort of thought in sense.
+
+ 11.
+ But from the first 'twas Peter's drift
+ To be a kind of moral eunuch,
+ He touched the hem of Nature's shift,                           315
+ Felt faint--and never dared uplift
+ The closest, all-concealing tunic.
+
+ 12.
+ She laughed the while, with an arch smile,
+ And kissed him with a sister's kiss,
+ And said--My best Diogenes,                                     320
+ I love you well--but, if you please,
+ Tempt not again my deepest bliss.
+
+ 13.
+ ''Tis you are cold--for I, not coy,
+ Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true;
+ And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy--                             325
+ His errors prove it--knew my joy
+ More, learned friend, than you.
+
+ 14.
+ 'Boeca bacciata non perde ventura,
+ Anzi rinnuova come fa la luna:--
+ So thought Boccaccio, whose sweet words might cure a            330
+ Male prude, like you, from what you now endure, a
+ Low-tide in soul, like a stagnant laguna.
+
+ 15.
+ Then Peter rubbed his eyes severe.
+ And smoothed his spacious forehead down
+ With his broad palm;--'twixt love and fear,                     335
+ He looked, as he no doubt felt, queer,
+ And in his dream sate down.
+
+ 16.
+ The Devil was no uncommon creature;
+ A leaden-witted thief--just huddled
+ Out of the dross and scum of nature;                            340
+ A toad-like lump of limb and feature,
+ With mind, and heart, and fancy muddled.
+
+ 17.
+ He was that heavy, dull, cold thing,
+ The spirit of evil well may be:
+ A drone too base to have a sting;                               345
+ Who gluts, and grimes his lazy wing,
+ And calls lust, luxury.
+
+ 18.
+ Now he was quite the kind of wight
+ Round whom collect, at a fixed aera,
+ Venison, turtle, hock, and claret,--                            350
+ Good cheer--and those who come to share it--
+ And best East Indian madeira!
+
+ 19.
+ It was his fancy to invite
+ Men of science, wit, and learning,
+ Who came to lend each other light;                              355
+ He proudly thought that his gold's might
+ Had set those spirits burning.
+
+ 20.
+ And men of learning, science, wit,
+ Considered him as you and I
+ Think of some rotten tree, and sit                              360
+ Lounging and dining under it,
+ Exposed to the wide sky.
+
+ 21.
+ And all the while with loose fat smile,
+ The willing wretch sat winking there,
+ Believing 'twas his power that made                             365
+ That jovial scene--and that all paid
+ Homage to his unnoticed chair.
+
+ 22.
+ Though to be sure this place was Hell;
+ He was the Devil--and all they--
+ What though the claret circled well,                            370
+ And wit, like ocean, rose and fell?--
+ Were damned eternally.
+
+
+
+
+PART 5. GRACE.
+
+ 1.
+ Among the guests who often stayed
+ Till the Devil's petits-soupers,
+ A man there came, fair as a maid,                               375
+ And Peter noted what he said,
+ Standing behind his master's chair.
+
+ 2.
+ He was a mighty poet--and
+ A subtle-souled psychologist;
+ All things he seemed to understand,                             380
+ Of old or new--of sea or land--
+ But his own mind--which was a mist.
+
+ 3.
+ This was a man who might have turned
+ Hell into Heaven--and so in gladness
+ A Heaven unto himself have earned;                              385
+ But he in shadows undiscerned
+ Trusted.--and damned himself to madness.
+
+ 4.
+ He spoke of poetry, and how
+ 'Divine it was--a light--a love--
+ A spirit which like wind doth blow                              390
+ As it listeth, to and fro;
+ A dew rained down from God above;
+
+ 5.
+ 'A power which comes and goes like dream,
+ And which none can ever trace--
+ Heaven's light on earth--Truth's brightest beam.'               395
+ And when he ceased there lay the gleam
+ Of those words upon his face.
+
+ 6.
+ Now Peter, when he heard such talk,
+ Would, heedless of a broken pate,
+ Stand like a man asleep, or balk                                400
+ Some wishing guest of knife or fork,
+ Or drop and break his master's plate.
+
+ 7.
+ At night he oft would start and wake
+ Like a lover, and began
+ In a wild measure songs to make                                 405
+ On moor, and glen, and rocky lake,
+ And on the heart of man--
+
+ 8.
+ And on the universal sky--
+ And the wide earth's bosom green,--
+ And the sweet, strange mystery                                  410
+ Of what beyond these things may lie,
+ And yet remain unseen.
+
+ 9.
+ For in his thought he visited
+ The spots in which, ere dead and damned,
+ He his wayward life had led;                                    415
+ Yet knew not whence the thoughts were fed
+ Which thus his fancy crammed.
+
+ 10.
+ And these obscure remembrances
+ Stirred such harmony in Peter,
+ That, whensoever he should please,                              420
+ He could speak of rocks and trees
+ In poetic metre.
+
+ 11.
+ For though it was without a sense
+ Of memory, yet he remembered well
+ Many a ditch and quick-set fence;                               425
+ Of lakes he had intelligence,
+ He knew something of heath and fell.
+
+ 12.
+ He had also dim recollections
+ Of pedlars tramping on their rounds;
+ Milk-pans and pails; and odd collections                        430
+ Of saws, and proverbs; and reflections
+ Old parsons make in burying-grounds.
+
+ 13.
+ But Peter's verse was clear, and came
+ Announcing from the frozen hearth
+ Of a cold age, that none might tame                             435
+ The soul of that diviner flame
+ It augured to the Earth:
+
+ 14.
+ Like gentle rains, on the dry plains,
+ Making that green which late was gray,
+ Or like the sudden moon, that stains                            440
+ Some gloomy chamber's window-panes
+ With a broad light like day.
+
+ 15.
+ For language was in Peter's hand
+ Like clay while he was yet a potter;
+ And he made songs for all the land,                             445
+ Sweet both to feel and understand,
+ As pipkins late to mountain Cotter.
+
+ 16.
+ And Mr. --, the bookseller,
+ Gave twenty pounds for some;--then scorning
+ A footman's yellow coat to wear,                                450
+ Peter, too proud of heart, I fear,
+ Instantly gave the Devil warning.
+
+ 17.
+ Whereat the Devil took offence,
+ And swore in his soul a great oath then,
+ 'That for his damned impertinence                               455
+ He'd bring him to a proper sense
+ Of what was due to gentlemen!'
+
+
+
+
+PART 6. DAMNATION.
+
+ 1.
+ 'O that mine enemy had written
+ A book!'--cried Job:--a fearful curse,
+ If to the Arab, as the Briton,                                  460
+ 'Twas galling to be critic-bitten:--
+ The Devil to Peter wished no worse.
+
+ 2.
+ When Peter's next new book found vent,
+ The Devil to all the first Reviews
+ A copy of it slyly sent,                                        465
+ With five-pound note as compliment,
+ And this short notice--'Pray abuse.'
+
+ 3.
+ Then seriatim, month and quarter,
+ Appeared such mad tirades.--One said--
+ 'Peter seduced Mrs. Foy's daughter,                             470
+ Then drowned the mother in Ullswater,
+ The last thing as he went to bed.'
+
+ 4.
+ Another--'Let him shave his head!
+ Where's Dr. Willis?--Or is he joking?
+ What does the rascal mean or hope,                              475
+ No longer imitating Pope,
+ In that barbarian Shakespeare poking?'
+
+ 5.
+ One more, 'Is incest not enough?
+ And must there be adultery too?
+ Grace after meat? Miscreant and Liar!                           480
+ Thief! Blackguard! Scoundrel! Fool! hell-fire
+ Is twenty times too good for you.
+
+ 6.
+ 'By that last book of yours WE think
+ You've double damned yourself to scorn;
+ We warned you whilst yet on the brink                           485
+ You stood. From your black name will shrink
+ The babe that is unborn.'
+
+ 7.
+ All these Reviews the Devil made
+ Up in a parcel, which he had
+ Safely to Peter's house conveyed.                               490
+ For carriage, tenpence Peter paid--
+ Untied them--read them--went half mad.
+
+ 8.
+ 'What!' cried he, 'this is my reward
+ For nights of thought, and days, of toil?
+ Do poets, but to be abhorred                                    495
+ By men of whom they never heard,
+ Consume their spirits' oil?
+
+ 9.
+ 'What have I done to them?--and who
+ IS Mrs. Foy? 'Tis very cruel
+ To speak of me and Betty so!                                    500
+ Adultery! God defend me! Oh!
+ I've half a mind to fight a duel.
+
+ 10.
+ 'Or,' cried he, a grave look collecting,
+ 'Is it my genius, like the moon,
+ Sets those who stand her face inspecting,                       505
+ That face within their brain reflecting,
+ Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune?'
+
+ 11.
+ For Peter did not know the town,
+ But thought, as country readers do,
+ For half a guinea or a crown,                                   510
+ He bought oblivion or renown
+ From God's own voice in a review.
+
+ 12.
+ All Peter did on this occasion
+ Was, writing some sad stuff in prose.
+ It is a dangerous invasion                                      515
+ When poets criticize; their station
+ Is to delight, not pose.
+
+ 13.
+ The Devil then sent to Leipsic fair
+ For Born's translation of Kant's book;
+ A world of words, tail foremost, where                          520
+ Right--wrong--false--true--and foul--and fair
+ As in a lottery-wheel are shook.
+
+ 14.
+ Five thousand crammed octavo pages
+ Of German psychologics,--he
+ Who his furor verborum assuages                                 525
+ Thereon, deserves just seven months' wages
+ More than will e'er be due to me.
+
+ 15.
+ I looked on them nine several days,
+ And then I saw that they were bad;
+ A friend, too, spoke in their dispraise,--                      530
+ He never read them;--with amaze
+ I found Sir William Drummond had.
+
+ 16.
+ When the book came, the Devil sent
+ It to P. Verbovale, Esquire,
+ With a brief note of compliment,                                535
+ By that night's Carlisle mail. It went,
+ And set his soul on fire.
+
+ 17.
+ Fire, which ex luce praebens fumum,
+ Made him beyond the bottom see
+ Of truth's clear well--when I and you, Ma'am,                   540
+ Go, as we shall do, subter humum,
+ We may know more than he.
+
+ 18.
+ Now Peter ran to seed in soul
+ Into a walking paradox;
+ For he was neither part nor whole,                              545
+ Nor good, nor bad--nor knave nor fool;
+ --Among the woods and rocks
+
+ 19.
+ Furious he rode, where late he ran,
+ Lashing and spurring his tame hobby;
+ Turned to a formal puritan,                                     550
+ A solemn and unsexual man,--
+ He half believed "White Obi".
+
+ 20.
+ This steed in vision he would ride,
+ High trotting over nine-inch bridges,
+ With Flibbertigibbet, imp of pride,                             555
+ Mocking and mowing by his side--
+ A mad-brained goblin for a guide--
+ Over corn-fields, gates, and hedges.
+
+ 21.
+ After these ghastly rides, he came
+ Home to his heart, and found from thence                        560
+ Much stolen of its accustomed flame;
+ His thoughts grew weak, drowsy, and lame
+ Of their intelligence.
+
+ 22.
+ To Peter's view, all seemed one hue;
+ He was no Whig, he was no Tory;                                 565
+ No Deist and no Christian he;--
+ He got so subtle, that to be
+ Nothing, was all his glory.
+
+ 23.
+ One single point in his belief
+ From his organization sprung,                                   570
+ The heart-enrooted faith, the chief
+ Ear in his doctrines' blighted sheaf,
+ That 'Happiness is wrong';
+
+ 24.
+ So thought Calvin and Dominic;
+ So think their fierce successors, who                           575
+ Even now would neither stint nor stick
+ Our flesh from off our bones to pick,
+ If they might 'do their do.'
+
+ 25.
+ His morals thus were undermined:--
+ The old Peter--the hard, old Potter--                           580
+ Was born anew within his mind;
+ He grew dull, harsh, sly, unrefined,
+ As when he tramped beside the Otter.
+
+ 26.
+ In the death hues of agony
+ Lambently flashing from a fish,                                 585
+ Now Peter felt amused to see
+ Shades like a rainbow's rise and flee,
+ Mixed with a certain hungry wish.
+
+ 27.
+ So in his Country's dying face
+ He looked--and, lovely as she lay,                              590
+ Seeking in vain his last embrace,
+ Wailing her own abandoned case,
+ With hardened sneer he turned away:
+
+ 28.
+ And coolly to his own soul said;--
+ 'Do you not think that we might make                            595
+ A poem on her when she's dead:--
+ Or, no--a thought is in my head--
+ Her shroud for a new sheet I'll take:
+
+ 29.
+ 'My wife wants one.--Let who will bury
+ This mangled corpse! And I and you,                             600
+ My dearest Soul, will then make merry,
+ As the Prince Regent did with Sherry,--'
+ 'Ay--and at last desert me too.'
+
+ 30.
+ And so his Soul would not be gay,
+ But moaned within him; like a fawn                              605
+ Moaning within a cave, it lay
+ Wounded and wasting, day by day,
+ Till all its life of life was gone.
+
+ 31.
+ As troubled skies stain waters clear,
+ The storm in Peter's heart and mind                             610
+ Now made his verses dark and queer:
+ They were the ghosts of what they were,
+ Shaking dim grave-clothes in the wind.
+
+ 32.
+ For he now raved enormous folly,
+ Of Baptisms, Sunday-schools, and Graves,                        615
+ 'Twould make George Colman melancholy
+ To have heard him, like a male Molly,
+ Chanting those stupid staves.
+
+ 33.
+ Yet the Reviews, who heaped abuse
+ On Peter while he wrote for freedom,                            620
+ So soon as in his song they spy
+ The folly which soothes tyranny,
+ Praise him, for those who feed 'em.
+
+ 34.
+ 'He was a man, too great to scan;--
+ A planet lost in truth's keen rays:--                           625
+ His virtue, awful and prodigious;--
+ He was the most sublime, religious,
+ Pure-minded Poet of these days.'
+
+ 35.
+ As soon as he read that, cried Peter,
+ 'Eureka! I have found the way                                   630
+ To make a better thing of metre
+ Than e'er was made by living creature
+ Up to this blessed day.'
+
+ 36.
+ Then Peter wrote odes to the Devil;--
+ In one of which he meekly said:                                 635
+ 'May Carnage and Slaughter,
+ Thy niece and thy daughter,
+ May Rapine and Famine,
+ Thy gorge ever cramming,
+ Glut thee with living and dead!                                 640
+
+ 37.
+ 'May Death and Damnation,
+ And Consternation,
+ Flit up from Hell with pure intent!
+ Slash them at Manchester,
+ Glasgow, Leeds, and Chester;                                    645
+ Drench all with blood from Avon to Trent.
+
+ 38.
+ 'Let thy body-guard yeomen
+ Hew down babes and women,
+ And laugh with bold triumph till Heaven be rent!
+ When Moloch in Jewry                                            650
+ Munched children with fury,
+ It was thou, Devil, dining with pure intent.
+
+
+
+
+PART 7. DOUBLE DAMNATION.
+
+ 1.
+ The Devil now knew his proper cue.--
+ Soon as he read the ode, he drove
+ To his friend Lord MacMurderchouse's,                           655
+ A man of interest in both houses,
+ And said:--'For money or for love,
+
+ 2.
+ 'Pray find some cure or sinecure;
+ To feed from the superfluous taxes
+ A friend of ours--a poet--fewer                                 660
+ Have fluttered tamer to the lure
+ Than he.' His lordship stands and racks his
+
+ 3.
+ Stupid brains, while one might count
+ As many beads as he had boroughs,--
+ At length replies; from his mean front,                         665
+ Like one who rubs out an account,
+ Smoothing away the unmeaning furrows:
+
+ 4.
+ 'It happens fortunately, dear Sir,
+ I can. I hope I need require
+ No pledge from you, that he will stir                           670
+ In our affairs;--like Oliver.
+ That he'll be worthy of his hire.'
+
+ 5.
+ These words exchanged, the news sent off
+ To Peter, home the Devil hied,--
+ Took to his bed; he had no cough,                               675
+ No doctor,--meat and drink enough.--
+ Yet that same night he died.
+
+ 6.
+ The Devil's corpse was leaded down;
+ His decent heirs enjoyed his pelf,
+ Mourning-coaches, many a one,                                   680
+ Followed his hearse along the town:--
+ Where was the Devil himself?
+
+ 7.
+ When Peter heard of his promotion,
+ His eyes grew like two stars for bliss:
+ There was a bow of sleek devotion                               685
+ Engendering in his back; each motion
+ Seemed a Lord's shoe to kiss.
+
+ 8.
+ He hired a house, bought plate, and made
+ A genteel drive up to his door,
+ With sifted gravel neatly laid,--                               690
+ As if defying all who said,
+ Peter was ever poor.
+
+ 9.
+ But a disease soon struck into
+ The very life and soul of Peter--
+ He walked about--slept--had the hue                             695
+ Of health upon his cheeks--and few
+ Dug better--none a heartier eater.
+
+ 10.
+ And yet a strange and horrid curse
+ Clung upon Peter, night and day;
+ Month after month the thing grew worse,                         700
+ And deadlier than in this my verse
+ I can find strength to say.
+
+ 11.
+ Peter was dull--he was at first
+ Dull--oh, so dull--so very dull!
+ Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--                        705
+ Still with this dulness was he cursed--
+ Dull--beyond all conception--dull.
+
+ 12.
+ No one could read his books--no mortal,
+ But a few natural friends, would hear him;
+ The parson came not near his portal;                            710
+ His state was like that of the immortal
+ Described by Swift--no man could bear him.
+
+ 13.
+ His sister, wife, and children yawned,
+ With a long, slow, and drear ennui,
+ All human patience far beyond;                                  715
+ Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,
+ Anywhere else to be.
+
+ 14.
+ But in his verse, and in his prose,
+ The essence of his dulness was
+ Concentred and compressed so close,                             720
+ 'Twould have made Guatimozin doze
+ On his red gridiron of brass.
+
+ 15.
+ A printer's boy, folding those pages,
+ Fell slumbrously upon one side;
+ Like those famed Seven who slept three ages.                    725
+ To wakeful frenzy's vigil--rages,
+ As opiates, were the same applied.
+
+ 16.
+ Even the Reviewers who were hired
+ To do the work of his reviewing,
+ With adamantine nerves, grew tired;--                           730
+ Gaping and torpid they retired,
+ To dream of what they should be doing.
+
+ 17.
+ And worse and worse, the drowsy curse
+ Yawned in him, till it grew a pest--
+ A wide contagious atmosphere,                                   735
+ Creeping like cold through all things near;
+ A power to infect and to infest.
+
+ 18.
+ His servant-maids and dogs grew dull;
+ His kitten, late a sportive elf;
+ The woods and lakes, so beautiful,                              740
+ Of dim stupidity were full.
+ All grew dull as Peter's self.
+
+ 19.
+ The earth under his feet--the springs,
+ Which lived within it a quick life,
+ The air, the winds of many wings,                               745
+ That fan it with new murmurings,
+ Were dead to their harmonious strife.
+
+ 20.
+ The birds and beasts within the wood,
+ The insects, and each creeping thing,
+ Were now a silent multitude;                                    750
+ Love's work was left unwrought--no brood
+ Near Peter's house took wing.
+
+ 21.
+ And every neighbouring cottager
+ Stupidly yawned upon the other:
+ No jackass brayed; no little cur                                755
+ Cocked up his ears;--no man would stir
+ To save a dying mother.
+
+ 22.
+ Yet all from that charmed district went
+ But some half-idiot and half-knave,
+ Who rather than pay any rent,                                   760
+ Would live with marvellous content,
+ Over his father's grave.
+
+ 23.
+ No bailiff dared within that space,
+ For fear of the dull charm, to enter;
+ A man would bear upon his face,                                 765
+ For fifteen months in any case,
+ The yawn of such a venture.
+
+ 24.
+ Seven miles above--below--around--
+ This pest of dulness holds its sway;
+ A ghastly life without a sound;                                 770
+ To Peter's soul the spell is bound--
+ How should it ever pass away?
+
+
+
+
+
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