I search and search for them in vain.”

Brown—

“What! reproduce a scene so gross?

Why they, of course, are safe across!”

“Zounds!” cries his patron, with a frown,

“You’ve ‘done’ the job, and ‘done’ me,—Brown!”

This praise to Tennyson we give;

His ‘poem’s’ a splendid—negative.

No doubt it has much latent worth,

Else he would not have put it forth;