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To R. K.

As long I dwell on some stupendous
And tremendous (Heaven defend us !)
Monstr'-inform' - ingens-horrendous
Demoniaco-seraphic
Penman's latest piece of graphic.
Browning.

Will there never come a season
Which shall rid us from the curse
Of a prose which knows no reason
And an unmelodious verse:
When the world shall cease to wonder
At the genius of an Ass,
And a boy's eccentric blunder
Shall not bring success to pass:

When mankind shall be delivered
From the clash of magazines,
And the inkstand shall be shivered
Into countless smithereens:
When there stands a muzzled stripling,
Mute, beside a muzzled bore:
When the Rudyards cease from kipling
And the Haggards Ride no more.