Pessimist, you owe amends
For this forecast ribald:—
"Literary odds and ends
Will for lays be scribbled!"
Call you then mere bric-à-brac
Triolet and rondel?
All that's knocked off with a knack
Call you then mere bric-à-brac?"
Man of prose, you thus attack
Villon, Dobson, Blondel.