Connived at, by too easy tolerance,

Not to scrape palette simply or squeeze brush,

But dub your very self an Artist? Tush—

You, of the daubings, is it, dare advance

This doctrine that the Artist-mind must needs

Own to affinity with yours—confess

Provocative acquaintance, more or less,

With each impurely-peevish worm that breeds

Inside your brain's receptacle?

VI