"You suppose,

Horror?" Exactly! What 's the odds if, more or less

By yard or foot, the features do manage to express

Such meaning in the main? Were I of Gérôme's force,

Nor feeble as you see, quick should my crayon course

O'er outline, curb, excite, till,—so completion speeds

With Gérôme well at work,—observe how brow recedes,

Head shudders back on spine, as if one haled the hair,

Would have the full-face front what pin-point eye's sharp stare

Announces; mouth agape to drink the flowing fate,