Behind the Beyond.

In place of the squalor that stretches

Unchanged o'er the realist's page,

The sunshine that glows in your Sketches

Is potent our griefs to assuage;

And when, on your mettlesome charger,

Full tilt against reason you go,

Your Lunacy's finer and Larger

Than any I know.

The faults of ephemeral fiction,