"It was in bleak November

When I slew them, I remember,

As I caught them unawares

Drinking tea in rocking-chairs."

And so he talked them to death, the subject being "What Really Is Art?" Afterward he was sorry—

"The squeak of a door,

The creak of a floor,

My horrors and fears enhance;

And I wake with a scream

As I hear in my dream