Let Watts 'puff' Swinburne, Swinburne bow to Watts,

And Shakespeare be disproved by Mrs. Potts;

Let all the brawling folly of the time

Find vent in vapid prose and vulgar rhyme;

Let scribblers rush into the common mart

With all their mutilated blocks of art,

And take their share of this ephemeral day

With Collins and her 'Ta-ra-Boom-de-ay';

And what their end shall be, let others tell;

My time is up and I must say farewell,