"Have I misunderstood you in the main?

No! then must answer be, such argument,

Such policy, no matter what good love

Or hate it help, in practice proves absurd,

Useless and null: henceforward intercepts

Sober effective blow at what you blame,

And renders nugatory rightful praise

Of thing or person. The coarse brush has daubed—

What room for the finer limner's pencil-mark?

Blame? You curse, rather, till who blames must blush—