None of the self-laudation, vulgar brag,

Vainglorious rivals cultivate so much!

No! If some merest word in Art's defence

Justice demanded of me,—never fear!

Claim was preferred, but dignifiedly.

A cricket asked a locust (winged, you know)

What he had seen most rare in foreign parts?

'I have flown far,' chirped he, 'North, East, South, West,

And nowhere heard of poet worth a fig

If matched with Bald-head here, Aigina's boast,