What Philistia's fools malicious might esteem a vaurien vicious (alias "hedonic swell").
And every one will say,
As you writhe your sinuous way.
"If the highest result of the true 'Development' is decomposition, why see
What a very perfectly developed young man this developed young man must be."
With your perky paradoxes, and your talk of "crinkled ox-eyes," and of books in "Nile-green skin."
That show forth unholy histories, and display the "deeper mysteries" of strange and subtle Sin.
You can squirm, and glose, and hiss on, and awake that nouveau frisson which is Art's best gift to life.
And "develop"—like some cancer (in the Art-sphere) whose best answer is the silent surgeon's knife!
And every man will say,