Your good men and your bad men every one,

From Guido Franceschini to Guy Faux,

Oft would you rub your eyes and change your names.

Such, British Public, ye who like me not,

(God love you!)—whom I yet have labored for,

Perchance more careful whoso runs may read

Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran,—

Perchance more careless whoso reads may praise

Than late when he who praised and read and wrote

Was apt to find himself the selfsame me,—