To metal—ay, those Kassiterides!

Then asks: 'Ye apprehend the human form.

What of this statue, made to Pheidias' mind,

This picture, as it pleased our Zeuxis paint?

Ye too feel truth, love beauty: judge of these!'

Such strangers may judge feebly, stranger-like:

'Each hair too indistinct—for, see our own!

Hands, not skin-colored as these hands we have,

And lo, the want of due decorum here!

A citizen, arrayed in civic garb,