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,