G.P.O. Your complaint shall receive consideration.


REFLECTION BY A GENERAL READER.

I have been reading books wherein 'tis shown

(In diction autocratic, sour, un-civil),

That nothing can be absolutely known,

Save that the Universe is wholly evil!

And even this poor result is only plain

To Genius—which, of course, is quite a rarity.

I should have thought this would have given it pain,