And polishes his peaches and his grapes

Insanely. If his mercenary hopes

Were bolder he would be a nimble poet.

Slight in her bridal gown, his mind elopes

With adjectives that find her incomplete:

Your mind is hard and massively parades

Across the earth with Homer and Villon.

Since each of you with common sense evades

Monotony, I join you and refuse

To call you dwarf or giant. Let the fools