( * * * I do not believe a single modern English
poet is living to-day on the current proceeds of his
verse.--From "Literary Taste and How to Form it,"
by Arnold Bennett.)
What time I pen the Mighty Line
Suffused with the spark divine
As who should say: "By George! That's fine!"
Indignantly do I deny
The words of Arnold Bennett. Why,
Is this not English verse? say I.
And by the proceeds of that verse--
Such as, _e. g._, these little terc-
Ets--is not filled the family purse?
Do we not live on what I sell,
Sonnet, ballade, and villanelle?
* * *
"We do," She says, "and none too well."
