VI.

Not so thy Perryan Pens!

True to their M’s and N’s,

They do not with a whizzing zig-zag split,

Straddle, turn up their noses, sulk, and spit,

Or drop large dots,

Huge fullstop blots,

Where even semicolons were unfit.

They will not frizzle up, or, broom-like, drudge

In sable sludge—