[To John Murray, July 15, 1817. " Have you no new Babe of Literature sprung up to replace the dead, the distant, the tired, and the retired? no prose, no verse, no nothing? "]

N O infant Sotheby, whose dauntless head
Translates, misunderstood, a deal of German;
No city Wordsworth, more admired than read,
No drunken Coleridge with a new Lay Sermon .