Her tone, too, is—well, Eisteddfoddy.
I fear, if I gave the award
To this excellentest of old ladies,
Apollo might send me—'twere hard!—
To read one of her Epics—in Hades!
Then Pallas! Well, Pallas looks proud,
And I have no doubt might deserve a
Big crown from a true Primrose crowd:
But—she runs rather small for Minerva!
Men might mistake her for her owl.