DEVELOPMENT.
(With acknowledgments to the Author of "Patience.")
["Even a colour-sense is more important in the development of the individual than a sense of right and wrong."—OSCAR WILDE.]
If you're anxious to develop to a true hedonic "swell," hop on a pinnacle apart,
Like a monkey on a stick, and your phrases quaintly pick, and then prattle about Art.
Take some laboured paradoxes, and, like Samson's flaming foxes, let them loose amidst the corn
(Or the honest commonplaces) of the Philistines whose graces you regard with lofty scorn.
And every one will say,
As you squirm your wormy way,
"If this young man expresses himself in terms that stagger me,