My lessons end in loss?" at length fall slow

The pitying syllables, her lips allay

The satire of by keeping in full flow,

Above their coral reef, bright smiles at play:

"Can it be, Paul thus fails to rightly know

And altogether estimate applause

As just so many asinine hee-haws?

CXXI

"I thought to show you" ... "Show me," Paul inbroke,

"My poetry is rubbish, and the world