[To Thomas Moore, January 22, 1821. " Have you heard that the " Braziers' Company " have or mean to present an address at Brandenburgh House, " in armour, " and with all possible variety and splendour of brazen apparel?"]

The braziers, it seems, are preparing to pass
An address, and present it themselves all in brass —
A superfluous pageant — for, by the Lord Harry,
They'll find where they 're going much more than they carry.

There's an Ode for you, is it not? — worthy
Of Wordsworth, the grand metaquizzical poet,
A man of vast merit, though few people know it;
The perusal of whom (as I told you at Mestri)
I owe, in great part, to my passion for pastry.