“Je trouve que ces vers soient bien ennuyeux!”
“Dull, flat, quite a failure!” “Contemptible stuff!”
“What’s the name of the author? I pity the muff!”
And such-like expressions upon my poor versicles,
which even I don’t consider immaculate!
No! like any poor cousin who lives with a rich one
As companion or governess, awful condition!
I think I may say that, “I know my position.”
And since I can’t hope to be first in the race
I must e’en be content to put up with the place