"DE PROFUNDIS."
(By an Indignant "Outsider.")
A masterpiece, worthy of TURNER,
Was mine, there my friends all agree,
No work of a pot-boiling learner,
My "View on the Dee."
A place on the line I expected,
Associate shortly to be!
Hang me, if it isn't rejected,
And marked with a D!
I will not repeat what I uttered
When this was reported to me;
The mere monosyllable muttered
Begins with a D.