Partisan bitterness and purblind haste?
Come, view the haunts of dilettante Taste,
The coteries of Culture!
"Here Savants wrangle o'er a fossil bone,
Champer, with curling lip and caustic tone,
At Ruddiman is railing.
Champer knows everything, from Plato's text
To Protoplasm; yet his soul is vext,
His cheeks with spite are paling.
"Why? Because Ruddiman, the rude, robust,