Of the fairy-tales where beautiful princesses
Are delivered from a dragon by a prince!
How he curses the pedantic institution
Where he can’t obtain such volumes as “Le Cid,”
Or that masterpiece on “Social Evolution”
By another kind of Kidd!
Do you hear the children weeping, O my Brothers?
They are crying for Max Müller and Carlyle.
Tho’ Hans Andersen may satisfy their mothers,
They are weary of so immature a style.