Te Deum! Te Deum laudamus!
[FIVE CRITICISMS]
I.
(On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists.)
OLD PANTALOON, lean-witted, dour and rich,
After grim years of soul-destroying greed,
Weds Columbine, that April-blooded witch
"Too young" to know that gold was not her need.
Then enters Pierrot, young, rebellious, warm,