And be a Minor Poet;

And critics I may well defy

To find a minor bard than I.

I ought to live out ’Frisco way,

Where working is considered silly,

As Greeley (Horace) used to say,—

Or was it Collier (Willie)?—

“Go West, young man” (I understand),

“Go West and blow up with the land!”

Were I as full of zeal and fun