To ask analysis! How can else review,
Save in the dialect of his verse, be writ?
So write we: (would we might foresee the end!)
So has he taught us, i’ “The Ring and the Book,”
De gustibus, concerning taste, non est
There’s no—disputing, disputandum (Ha!
’Tis not so difficult)—and we submit.
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This Album-book—
“Hail, sham obliquity, lugubrious plot!”—