And they said "O Tennyson tell us,
Have you anything good to sell us,
The public mind it enrages,
To read such bosh by pages,
'The Victim' was little better,
And oh! that 'Spiteful Letter.'"
They spoke, their poor hair tearing,
TENNYSON poems rehearsing,
Publishers cursing and swearing,
TENNYSON swearing and cursing.