List, the true lay to rock a cradle with!

O man of Mitulené, wondrous wise!'

—Would not I rub each face in its own filth

To tune of 'Now that years have come and gone,

How does the fact stand? What 's demonstrable

By time, that tries things?—your own test, not mine

Who think men are, were, ever will be fools,

Though somehow fools confute fools,—as these, you!

Don't mumble to the sheepish twos and threes

You cornered and called "audience!" face this me