Your Foster and your Noel Paton.)

“Love rhymes with Art,” said your dear voice,

And, at my crude, uncultured age,

I could but blushingly rejoice

That you had passed the Rubens stage.

When Madox Brown and Morris swayed

Your taste, did I not dress and look

Like any Middle Ages maid

In an illuminated book?

I wore strange garments, without shame,