"Which brings me to the prime fault, poison-speck

Whence all the plague springs—that first feud of all

'Twixt me and you and your Euripides.

'Unworld the world,' frowns he, my opposite.

I cry, 'Life!' 'Death,' he groans, 'our better Life!'

Despise what is—the good and graspable,

Prefer the out of sight and in at mind,

To village-joy, the well-side violet-patch,

The jolly club-feast when our field 's in soak,

Roast thrushes, hare-soup, pea-soup, deep washed down