Convinced himself, by demonstration plain,
There never will be such a book again,
And never such a 'marvellous proper' man
To charm the hearts of ladies in Japan!
"Who out at Putney on the common strays,
Unsocial in his converse and his ways?
'Tis Swinburne, the Catullus of his day,
As sweet but as immoral in his lay.
Grieved to condemn, the Muse must still be just,