And in long articles to stupid papers

Thou still wilt cut thy literary capers,

Unhappy Art thy fresh intent may rue;

God save us, Gladstone, from thy next 'review'!

"Lo, the mild teacher of the Buddhist school,

The follower of the tamest blank-verse rule,

The simple Arnold, with his 'Asia's Light,'

Who wins attention by translation-right;

And both by precept and example shows

That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose,