He plunges on, with head upreared,—

As he had eaten witches’ herb,—

Raging his maddened way, unsteered.

He wants my fair word-pictures smeared

With thought laid on in polychrome!

Nay, we shall leave one fence uncleared;

I will not write a Cubist Pome!

He’d have me shape a lissome verb

Like a three-sided noun, ensphered!

He babbles of effects superb,