Then of the Critic, he who works behind

The Author's back, I tried the Clue to find;

But he, too, was in Darkness; and I heard

A Literary Agent say—"They All are Blind!"

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Then, from the lips of Editor, I learn,

"This Story is the Kind for which I Yearn;

Its Advertising brought us such Renown,

We jumped Three Hundred Thousand, on that Turn!"