The viewless arrows of his thoughts were headed
And wing'd with flame."
The following parody, which appeared in Punch, was apropos of the poetry of the so-called "Fleshly School," and very closely follows the diction of the original:—
THE POET (OF THE PERIOD).
With Punch's apologies for the application of noble Stanzas to an ignoble subject.
THE Poet in a dismal clime was born,
With lurid stars above;
Dower'd with a taste for hate, a love for scorn,
A scorn for love.
He glanced through life and death, through good and ill,