Denting it on the wainscot! Do you see

How wise our caution was? Thus much we stopped

Of babble that had else grown print: and lopped

From your trim bay-tree this unsightly bough—

Smart's who translated Horace! Write us now" ...

Why, what Smart did write—never afterward

One line to show that he, who paced the sward,

Had reached the zenith from his madhouse cell.

IX

Was it because you judged (I know full well