ENVOI

PROTECTIONIST! ( if you exist )

Whose sympathies I can n't enlist,

Be sparing of your curses!

Ah, do n't abuse my Fiscal VIEWS,

But, out of pity for the Muse,

Look only at my VERSES!

FREE TRADER, too, I beg of you,

Whatever else you think or do,

My lack of skill excuse. Ah!

No doubt my VERSE could not be worse,

And weak the rhymes that I rehearse;

But, then, how sound my VIEWS are!

( Thus may I strengthen — or convert,

And no one's feelings need be hurt! )