That same year a Portrait de Climène, ode anacréontique, proves that he had yet to sustain a real defeat in the line of verse before he came to realize that he should confine himself to prose alone.

It lacks emotional force, except now and then in Gray's immortal Elegy, in his Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, in Collins's lines, On the Death of Thomson, and his little ode beginning, "How sleep the brave.

The Chorus enter in pursuit of their victim, and sing an ode descriptive of their powers.

Wieland was the great poet then, with whom perhaps might be classed the ode-maker, Rambler of Berlin.

Odes et Poésies diverses.

Drury-Lane replies;"] [Footnote 11: "On his own works with laurel crowned, Neatly and elegantly bound, For this is one of many rules With writing Lords and laureate fools, And which forever must succeed With other Lords who cannot read, However destitute of wit, To make their works for bookcase fit, Acknowledged master of those seats, Cibber his birthday odes repeats.