But the stimulating ebullition

Of a sort of humanized cyclone;

Unafraid of flagrant paradoxes,

Unashamed of often seeing red,

Here's a thinker who the compass boxes

Standing most at ease upon his head.

Yet with all this acrobatic frolic

There's a core of sanity behind

Madness that is never melancholic,

Passion never cruel or unkind;