How I hate those modern Poems Vaguer, looser than a dream! Pointless things that look like proems Only, to some held-back theme! Wild unequal, agitated, As by steam ill-regulated - Balder-dashie steam! And if (in fine) not super-lyrical, Then vapid, almost to a miracle.
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