Seeing my lips, too, thrill, my heart, too, burns,

Why the great contest should I take no part in!

May be I do not carry guns enough

To epically glorify King ARTHUR,

But I have penned some reams of rhythmic stuff

Concerning (please admire the rhyme!) SIDDÁRTHA.

(That, as an "assonance," is quite as good

As "sang it," and "began it.") Ornamental

And Eastern Mythos draws me; but I'm good

At "Poems National and Non-Oriental."