Or take delight in knowing that in such a county

Some teeming, triple mother earns the Royal Bounty?

Ibsenity! Amid the maze of words

I find it difficult to pick my way right;

This critic at the Master only girds,

That promptly hails him as the "premier playwright."

Whilst I don't mind confessing that I swear right roundly

At mention of a subject that I hate profoundly.

Then Parliament—without the slightest doubt

Of all dull things the dullest. What could be more