Brings all men level, like the greens they putt on;

One common bunker makes the whole world kin,

And Bar may scrap with Beak, and I with Scr-tt-n.

Nor did I give myself superior airs;

I made allowance for defective sight;

"The bandage which impartial Justice wears

Leaves you," I said, "a stranger to the light;

Habituated to the sword and scales,

If you commit some pardonable blunder,

If" (I remarked) "your nerve at moments fails