Like Elbert Hubbard forth; her Words to Scorn

Are scatter'd, and her Books by Critics cussed.

XXVII

Myself when young did eagerly peruse

James, Meredith and Hardy—but to lose

My Reason, trying to make Head or Tail;

The more I read, the more did they confuse.

XXVIII

With them the Germs of Madness did I sow,