In scorn of all that is, beneath the sky;

In brief it is an aspect deleterious,

A face decidedly not serious,

A face profane, that would not do at all

To make a face at Exeter Hall,—

That Hall where bigots rant, and cant, and pray,

And laud each other face to face,

Till ev'ry farthing-candle ray

Conceives itself a great gas-light of grace.

Well!—be the graceless lineaments confest!