They did not fail in colour, for they had their Peacock's tales;
Their heroines, I must admit, ran seldom off the rails;
They had their apes and angels, but they never once employed
The psycho-analytic rules devised by Jung and Freud.
They ran a tilt at fraud and guilt, at snobbery and shams;
They had no lack of Meredithyrambic epigrams;
The types that most appealed to them were not neurasthenoid;
They lived, you see, before the day of Messrs. Jung and Freud.
(I've searched the last edition of the famous Ency. Brit.
And neither of this noble pair is even named in it;