And judges Poesy as just a cross
'Twixt Ashby Sterry, Lang, and Edmund Gosse.
"Behold! in various throngs the scribbling crew,
For notice eager, pass in long review;
Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace:
Rhyme and romance maintain an equal race.
The Grand Old Paradox of Hawarden
Seizes in haste his too prolific pen,
And, heedless how the reading world is bored,
Thrusts to the front a Mrs. Humphry Ward,