A strange Pierian Spring for the stark Teuton!
God Phœbus cannot play the German flute on.
Mars-Bismarck, Titan-Wagner, stalwarts these,
Who would not twaddle at "Æsthetic Teas;"
Heracles-Virchow is a valorous slayer,
And Jovian Goethe proves a splendid stayer;
But the mild, mawkish, modern German muse
Olympian nectar will for "slops" refuse.
Submerged in sentimentalism utter,
Asked for Art-bread she proffers—Bread-and-butter!