Ignore all beauty; find or forge a fault;
Revive old puns and call them 'attic salt';
Then to the 'Speaker' or to Henley go
(The 'pay' for book-reviews is always low);
Fear not to lie—'twill seem a ready hit;
Shrink not from blasphemy—'twill pass for wit;
Care not for feeling; launch a scurrilous jest,
And be a critic with the very best!
"Will any own such judgment? No, as soon
Trust wavering shadows 'neath th' inconstant moon,