Then read aloud his works, with eye upturned.
(Somehow I felt I’d heard it all before—
When I was “boat-boy,” in a pinafore.)
Are Sitwells really safe? Is Iris Tree
A certain guide to higher poesy?
Can Nichols be relied on, for a lead;
Or should I thump it with Sassoon and Read?
Or would it not be vastly better fun
To write of Nymphs, with Richard Aldington?
Or shall I train, and nervously aspire