"Mister Smatter, how you chatter,
Dear, how clever! well, I never
Heard so eloquent a man!"
Tropes purloining, graces coining,
Glibly I, without repentance,
Clip each sentence.
But, to give each lot its station,
Ere from pulpit I dismount
God of recapitulation,
Hermes, aid me while I count—