Took their occasion, and supported Sludge
—As proselytes? No, thank you, far too shrewd!
—But promisers of fair play, encouragers
O' the claimant; who in candor needs must hoist
Sludge up on Mars' Hill, get speech out of Sludge
To carry off, criticise, and cant about!
Didn't Athens treat Saint Paul so?—-at any rate,
It's "a new thing" philosophy fumbles at.
Then there 's the other picker-out of pearl
From dungheaps,—ay, your literary man,