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 HORSE & FOOT.
 
 HORSE & FOOT; 
 
 OR, 
 
 PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 
 
 BY RICHARD CRAWLEY 
 
 " I'll not inarch through Coventry with them, that's flat. 
 
 LONDON : 
 JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY. 
 
 1868.
 
 
 PRE FA CE. 
 
 "D Y way of preface to this Satire, I need only 
 remark that I have no acquaintance with the persons 
 mentioned in it, or indeed with any one in the hterary 
 world : I have written independently. 
 
 ^ov'^/1 
 ^^4^-J^--^-
 
 DEDICA TION. 
 
 TO F. W. B. 
 
 'T^HE morning's child, the painted butterfly, 
 
 Lives scarce one day, but Hves it in the sun ; 
 More days are ours, yet, by the time we die, 
 How much more sunshine have we looked upon ! 
 Sighing in Youth, because To-morrow lingers ; 
 In Age, because fair Yesterday has fled, 
 We let the present good escape our fingers. 
 And wildly grasp at fijture joys instead. 
 But, oh ! what's gone is surely past regretting, 
 And, if you'll trust philosophers and sages. 
 What's coming 's usually not worth the getting. 
 So let us take the pleasures of our ages ; 
 
 For C — a system, M — a face that's new, 
 ]\Ie summer days and winter nights with you.
 
 HORSE & FOOT; 
 
 OR, 
 
 PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 
 
 ^1 /"HEN loud for beer each honest pauper storms, 
 
 When men hke robins stand agape for worms ; 
 Wlien bards in legions throng the Muse's hill, 
 And verse, like sewage, chokes the sacred rill ; 
 5 Curst be the man, who in these wretched times 
 Gives many children to the state, or rhymes. 
 
 Of these two criminals the last is v/orst 
 Yet mercy, MilP and Phoebus, 'tis my first ! 
 
 > See Mr. J. S. MiU's " PoUtical Economy," vol. i., p. 458 :— 
 " Little improvement can be expected in morality until the pro- 
 
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 2 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 I've license now ; if others I beget, 
 lo No doubt a jail or two '11 be standing yet. 
 For JNIill, a prophet and a man of parts, 
 Adai)t3 his doctrine to our hardened hearts ; 
 Gives mortals two, and parsons three or four, 
 Though five's sheer folly, and ' brute instinct ' more 
 1 5 And I'll uphold when men and gods have done, 
 That e'en a poet has his right to one. 
 Yet haste, good peo2:)le, ere the sentence fall. 
 Soon 'twill ])e crime to propagate at all : 
 
 diicing of large families is regarded with the same feelings as 
 drunkenness or any other physical excess. But while the aristo- 
 cracy and clergy are foremost to set the example of this kind of 
 incontinence, what can be expected of the poor ?" 
 
 Again, p. 438, this conduct is described as : — " A degrading 
 slavery to a brute instinct in one of the persons concerned, and 
 most commonly in the other helpless submission to a revolting 
 abuse of power." 
 
 A heroic attempt to upset the tyranny, which Mr. Mill so 
 justly stigmatises, and its failure, is commemorated by Pi-ior in 
 his tale of " Paulo Purgaute."
 
 OE, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 3 
 
 Soon Mill's successor in his glorious course 
 20 Will make the nation bachelor hy force. 
 
 "^/Y^HILE here Statistics, and here Nature calls, 
 Wliile Prudence checks me, and while Fame enthrals ; 
 Ere Phoebus liides indignant in the deep, ^ 
 Ere Patmcre ^ drones the last, last muse to sleep ; 
 
 25 Ere, vanquished in the fratricidal strife, 
 
 The last goose yields its feathers, and its life ; 
 Ere cautious crows the coming doom foresee, 
 And jackdaws fly from Woolner^ and from me ; 
 Ere paper rise my modest means above, 
 
 30 While ink still sells for copper or for love ; 
 'Tis fixed, I loose my shallop from the shore. 
 And give to Folly's court one fool the more. 
 
 2 Mr. Coventry Patmore the author of " The Angei in tlie 
 House," and other verses. 
 
 ' Mr. Thomas Wooluer, the author of a poem called " JIj 
 Beautifid Lady."
 
 4 nOESE AND FOOT; 
 
 \/yHEN heedless Jove in sport or spite began, 
 And out of clay'' and nectar moulded man, 
 
 35 The mighty creature, if old tales be true, 
 First fed on acorns as the monkeys do ; 
 And so for ages dwelt beside the springs, 
 Remote from bakers, booksellers, and kings. 
 At last he learned the genial fields to sow, 
 
 40 And harnessed wife or oxen to the plough. 
 
 Brewed beer, got drunk, and tasted Sirloin's might. 
 Waxed fat, trapped geese, and straight began to write. 
 
 CiNCE then like raging fire the mischief spread, 
 Odes in each eye, and nonsense in each head, 
 45 Till scribbling got engrafted in the wood. 
 And grew a vice inveterate to the blood. 
 
 ■• That is to say that man was made after dinner. Out of the 
 •wetter clods were formed Germans ; out of the dust, Frenchmen ; 
 while from the firmest and finest pieces, arose Englishmen. 
 After supper, when a more generous fluid had been brought 
 in, an odd-looking lump was found by Mars in Venus' lap, 
 whicli Mercury handed to Jove. With it he made Irishmen.
 
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 Go then, young templar, or more sprightly cit, 
 The world thine oyster, and thy knife thy Avit ; 
 Whoe'er thou art uneasy with thy state, 
 50 W[\o wouldst at once he opulent and great ; 
 Go, search broad nature, tiy from zone to zone. 
 And find the prodigy to print unknoAAai, 
 Then cage the monster, call the world to stare, 
 And shine the happiest shoAvman of the fair. 
 
 55 "Rut no, 'tis vain for such a thing to look, 
 For, soon or late, each Liped writes a hook ; 
 " Leaves from my Journal," " What I did not see 
 In Norway, France, Peru, or Italy ;" 
 Some stagnant pamphlet on the coming storm, 
 
 60 Stray thoughts, and leaden Essays on Eeform ; 
 Some sonnets printed at a friend's request, 
 That friend a lunatic or rogue at best ; 
 ^^^lo daily writhing on the listener's wheel. 
 Vowed that the world what he had felt should feel, 
 
 65 And madly soothed his misanthropic mind. 
 By knowing torture common to the kind.
 
 6 HOBSE AXD FOOT; 
 
 Vet though man's nothing hut a joke at hest, 
 'Tis true there's something serious in the jest ; 
 So in this journey through the realms of rhyme, 
 70 I'll take it all in earnest for the time, 
 
 And changing still, as humour sways the lyre, 
 Be A\Toth, sad, merry, careless, or admire. 
 
 'T'here was a time, ere Trollope'^ learned to spell, 
 
 ^ Mr. Thomas Anthony Trollope, the chief of tliose popular 
 novelists, " who," I am quoting from Mr. Mill, "teach nothing 
 but (what is ah'eadj too soon learnt from actual life) lessons of 
 worldliness, with, at most, the huckstering virtues which con- 
 duce to getting on in tlie world ; and, for the first time, per- 
 haps, in history, the youth of both sexes of the educated classes 
 are universally growing up nnromantic. What will come in 
 mature age from such a youth, the world has not yet had time 
 to see." 
 
 Again, from the same essay : — "The time was, when it was 
 thought that the best and most appropriate office of fictitious 
 narrative was to awaken high aspirations, by the representation 
 in interesting circumstances, of characters conformable indeed 
 to human nature, but whose actions and sentiments were of a 
 more generous and loftier cast than are ordinarily to be met 
 ■with by everybody in every-day life. Eut now-a-days nature
 
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 When S. Gr. 0." wrote seldom or wrote well, 
 7 5 When Swinburne' only lusted after tarts, 
 When Beales^ was yet a Bachelor of Arts : 
 Ere Broad Church rose to make logicians stare, 
 That medley of St. Paul and St. Voltaire ; 
 
 and probability are thought to be violated, if there be sho'WTi to 
 the reader, in the personages with whom he is called upon to 
 sympathise, characters on a larger scale than himself, or than 
 the persons he is accustomed to meet at a dinner and a quadrille 
 pai-tj." 
 
 I ought to remark that it is I, not Mr. Mill, who apply these 
 observations to Mr. Trollope. 
 
 ^ S. G. O., the irrepressible correspondent of the " Times." 
 For the sake of his parishioners I hope his doctrine is more 
 orthodox than his grammar, and his sermons shorter than his 
 letters. 
 
 ' Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne, author of " Atalanta 
 in Calydon," " Chastelard," " Poems and Ballads," &c. 
 
 ** Mr. Edmond Beales, Master of Arts and Oratory. But it i.s 
 superfluous to describe him. As was said, gentle I'eadcr, of hi.s 
 great predecessor, if he will pardon me the comparison, " not 
 to know him argues thyself unknown."
 
 8 nORSi: AND FOOT; 
 
 "When Alma Mater still young Genius fed, 
 80 Nor suckled slaves" and editors'" instead ; 
 
 ' I here allude to the debashig system of competitive ex- 
 amination, which, as far as its influence extends, is fast extin- 
 guishing all freedom of study and true love of the arts in the 
 UniTersities and elsewhere. 
 
 '" Our fathers read the classics as a Literature, their sons re- 
 gard them as a storehouse of Grammar. Tliis may be progress ; 
 it is certainly not improvement. Lord Chestei'field said that a 
 Frenchman, with the manners of his nation, and possessed of a 
 proper fund of genius and virtue, would be the greatest of 
 God's works. So, methinks, I can hear some pedant exclaim 
 that a Grammarian, with the knowledge of his class, and a 
 proper leaven of taste and enthusiasm, would be the first of 
 scholars. To Lord Chesterfield, it was objected, that his 
 Lordship seemed to regard the fund of genius and virtue 
 somewhat in the light of an extra ; and to the other, I would 
 i-emai'k that he appears to look upon taste and enthusiasm as at 
 best harmless luxuries. 
 
 Of course critical scholarship has its place, but it is essen- 
 tially a subordinate one : for my own part I read my ^schylus 
 with just as much pleasure, before I could pass an examination in 
 his plays as afterwards ; and if I were Horace, I should beguile the 
 tedium of Elysium, by tormenting the souls of my commentators.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 
 
 Ere Quaker" Wordsworth fettered English song, 
 Though oft his practice proved his preacliing AVi-ong : 
 Wlien poets poetry in nature sought, 
 When nature was, and pedantry was not ; 
 
 ^1 Part of Wordsworth's poetry uo one can admire more than 
 myself; but I cannot help thinking that his critical opinions 
 have exercised a most degrading influence over our literature. 
 He is seldom mean or vulgar himself, but his poetical 
 descendants are both, and it was he who taught them to be so. 
 He has been called the poet of natm-e, but without much jus- 
 tice; Jiis view of her was exceedingly narrow ; and while pro- 
 fessing to free poetry from the artificial trammels imposed upon 
 it by Pope, he tried to confine it to the mountains of West- 
 moreland, and the petty though simjole existences of the boors 
 that inhabit them. There is little melody or life iu his compo- 
 sitions ; he is often undoubtedly dull, and to me there has always 
 been something eifeminate and unmanly both in the man and 
 liis works. As far as I have been able to observe, he is most 
 popular with the critics : the public read him rather as a duty 
 than a pleasure, and though he occasionally extorts their 
 admiration, he is scarcely ever a favourite. Those who hke him 
 best, are usually by nature more addicted to prose than poetry ; 
 the sort of people who are not too strict to go out, but who 
 think dramatic readings both safer and more improving than 
 the theatre.
 
 lo HOBSE AND FOOT; 
 
 85 Wlien every reader kncAV the rules of art, 
 For nought was needed but a feeling heart, 
 And hearts still blossomed in our English ground, 
 And life and motion in our veins were found. 
 But now, alas, a heavy change has come ! 
 
 90 Far Avanders Genius from his ancient home, 
 And mute, or exiled on a foreign shore 
 Still wafts his madness, and his music o'er, 
 Her singer still, her citizen no more. 
 
 Chades of the great, on whose enchanting tongue 
 95 The men of Spain and of Trafalgar hung ! 
 Who once these cities and these fields among, 
 Towered vast and free the demigods of song ; 
 Our kindred still, but heirs of other powers. 
 And other stature than these mates of ours ; 
 100 Confessed a mortal, and a heavenly birth, 
 
 Your IjTes were heaven's, but still they spake of earth ; 
 The tale is old, and with our race began, 
 And ever young,' ^ for ever born with man ; 
 
 '2 Nothing can be more absui'd than the ideas which maDj
 
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 His Hope ye sang, Love, Passion, Hate, and Fear, 
 105 And all the chances of his strange career ; 
 
 And still ye sang, and each one held his breath, 
 In silence sweet and motionless as death : 
 Grief for a moment all his pains forgot. 
 And spared a tear to mourn another's lot ; 
 no On Joy awhile, soft Melancholy lay, 
 A sunny cloud upon an April day : 
 Grey threescore listened, and grew young again, 
 And beardless youths lived out the lives of men : 
 Ye ceased, and Fancy's holiday is o'er, 
 115 And iron Fact oppresses us once more. 
 
 A ND ye, ye modern bards, what themes are yours ! 
 Faith, physics, metaphysics, and the sewers ; 
 
 writers of tlie present day have of progress. If we confine 
 our view to machinery and so forth, the advance that mankind 
 has made seems enormous ; if to man himself, scarcely worth 
 thinking about : we sleep, eat, and travel very differently from 
 our ancestors, but in essentials, man is in all nations and ages 
 the same. Otherwise Homer's poetry would be as obsolete as 
 Thales' physical speculations.
 
 12 SORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Bad squires, worse workmen, population's strife, 
 And all the accidents'^ of plaguestruck life ! 
 
 120 Wliat's worse, tlie social or the household evil ? 
 And who made man, God, nature, or the devil 1 
 The cursed past, the blessed age that's coming, 
 The wrongs of tinkers, and the rights of women : 
 Such dregs as ooze from Congreve's muddy pen, 
 
 125 And all that headaches give to mortal men, 
 Invade the hours to wit and wisdom due. 
 And damn to dulness Morley's new review.'* 
 
 Chall themes like these usurp a Marmion's''' praise, 
 And bards like you from Byron tear the bays, 
 
 '3 The word " accident" is hero used in its philosophical 
 sense as opposed to " essence." 
 
 '■» " The Torlnightly Eeview," edited by Mr. John Morley. 
 
 i» Scott's poetical faculty was perhaps not of the highest 
 order, but Jeffrey was vindoubtedly right, when he called the 
 battle in Marmion " the best of all Ihe poetical battles that have 
 been fought since the days of Homer." It is woi'th ten years of 
 peaceful life to read it.
 
 OB, TILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 13 
 
 130 Nor Satire lurk a lion in your ways 1 
 
 " Why not ! great Dryden's on the shelf forgot, 
 
 And Pope — he's judged — smug Progress knows him not : 
 
 We read not Dryden," 
 
 What shall Dryden do ? 
 " Nor Pope," 
 
 Alas for Dulness and for you ! 
 
 135 " Peace to the pigmies of a former time, 
 
 " Their thoughts were light, and lightly rode in rhyme : 
 " Our souls are freighted with a heavier stuff, 
 " Blank he the verse, it can't be blank enough ; 
 " Buchanan's'^ blank, liut let him blanker grow, 
 
 140 "And Jean'' surpass the blankest that we know. 
 " 'Tis true a jingle pleased our fathers well, 
 *' But then our ears are longer by an ell, 
 
 " Mr. Eobert Buchanan, author of "Idylls of Inverburn," 
 " London Poems," &c. 
 
 " Miss Jean Ingelow, authoress of the " Story of Doom," 
 and other Poems.
 
 14 BORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 " Our senses sharper, and more trained our powers, 
 
 " A truer, subtler melody is ours : 
 145 " Their ghosts, 'tis whispered, glide our groves about, 
 
 " And half our noblest music ne'er find out ; 
 
 " Still doubt o'er Arnold, and to measuring fall, 
 
 " And over Taylor'** never doubt at all. 
 
 " Yet there are many mansions in the house, 
 150 " Should your friends care with AVoolner to carouse? 
 
 " The hall is open to their humbler hope — " 
 
 Nay, hold — 'tis better to be damned with Pope. 
 
 "Rut hark, let Dickson," all unused to hear, 
 And Odger prick up a seditious ear, 
 
 '^ Mr. Henrj Taylor, author of " Philip Van Ai'tevelde," and 
 other plays. 
 
 '^ Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson, a gentleman whose military 
 title divides with Mr. Beales' University degree the admiration 
 of the Reform League. Perhaps, after all, there is something 
 more truly imposing in the plain simplicity of the name 
 " Odgcr." Either patriot is more accustomed to talk than to 
 listen.
 
 OB, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 15 
 
 155 Wliicli modern mildness leaves upon his head, 
 And curses Uivture and its own instead ; 
 Good news ! for Browning-" like a rebel comes, 
 With bells rang backward, and with beating drums ; 
 No lackey he, no Muses' minister, 
 
 160 But glorious Anarchy's adventurer : 
 
 Let other drivellers seek the quire to join. 
 And basely reign as regents to the Nine, 
 Their title own, and to the laws conform. 
 But sturdy Robert tries the hill by storm. 
 
 165 A painted Sphinx uj^on his sleeve he wears, 
 A painted Sphinx his rebel banner bears ; 
 She from the cradle called him for her own. 
 And her he destines for the Muses' throne ; 
 Her throne by right, and only theirs by wrong, 
 
 170 Got in wild times of conquest for a song. 
 
 J?OR this a mercenary troop he hires 
 Of words cast out of scientific quires ; 
 
 2« Mr. Eobert Browning, author of " Sordello," "Para- 
 celsus," " Christmas Eve," and a number of plays and poems.
 
 1 6 EORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Each lewd expression of the baser sort, 
 Each inky pedant still o'erlooked at Court, 
 
 175 Each rugged outlaAv from the realms of rhj-me, 
 In awkward squads that never marched in time ; 
 Phrases seduced from business and from j^rose, 
 Or kept by botanists to scare the crows ; 
 Each hunched monster melancholic grown 
 
 180 With i:)ining in a Lexicon alone ; 
 Their ammunition terrible to see, 
 A paste of Science and Theology,'^^ 
 Much loved by those whom Alma Mater Aveans, 
 And centuries escaping from their teens. 
 
 185 All these he draws, and drills the horrid line. 
 And bastinadoes into discipline ; 
 W^iile for reserve a convict force appears, 
 Whom even Barham'^^ broke for mutineers ! 
 
 " The poem called " Christmas Eve," in particular, is full 
 of ideas ■which in my opinion would be far better conveyed in a 
 fugitive treatise on divinity. 
 
 *^ Mr. Thomas Barham, the clever author of the " Iii- 
 goldsby Legends." His talent in rhyming is well known.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 17 
 
 He bids the bagpipe jangle for the fight, 
 190 And leads them on beneath the cloud of night. 
 
 Co let him fare, lost rebel though he be. 
 The noblest, greatest of the lost ones he ; 
 He leaves afar the ruck of those who fell, 
 And towers like Satan 'midst the mob of Hell. 
 
 195 Qo let him fare — while Fancy leaves the track. 
 And brings me Horace, and my cliildhood back, 
 When I, beneath a canopy of birch. 
 He, in the fond lap of the frump Research, 
 Together journeyed to Brunclisium, 
 
 200 I Mashed we never to that town-" had come. 
 
 -' Thus described by Horace in the fiftli satire of his first 
 book : — 
 
 " oppiduhim, quod versu dicere non est, 
 
 Signis pei'facile est : Tenit vilissima rerum 
 Hie aqua; sed panis longe pulcheiTimus, ultra 
 Calhdus ut soleat humeris portare viator : 
 Nam Canusl lapidosus." 
 This, it must be acknowledged, is a very pretty difficuhy ; 
 nor have the commentators been wanting to the occasion.
 
 i8 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 That tipsy spot, Avliere chalkless bread is sold, 
 And common water must be bought with gold ; 
 By different names to different Germans known, 
 And each more dull and crabbed than their own 
 
 205 Built by dead ushers for the schoolboy's curse, 
 And deaf to Horace, melody, and verse. 
 But wiser now, tlio' sadder than before, 
 I blame the poet, but the place no more : 
 More Browning knows than Horace ever knew, 
 
 210 He first has shown what Poetry can do. 
 
 Had Browning"-* travelled to that town forlorn. 
 Some fewer scars a tender part had borne ; 
 
 They first quote all the instanees in which other poets, Latin 
 or Grreek, have recoiled before a proper name, or complained 
 of the dearuess of water ; and then fall to guessing the name 
 of the village ; Orelli fights for Equotutium, Walckuaer witli 
 Wesseliug to back him for some other, and so forth. 
 
 ** Mr. Bi'owning is subject to a sort of St. Vitus' dance of 
 rlijmes, which constantly distorts the features of his poetry just 
 at the wrong moment. Uut he would have matched Equotu- 
 tiuni, or whatever the name was, in a trice; in fact, if Sir 
 Jamsetsee Jeejeeboy came to him for a copy of verses, and
 
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 And Gaspar,-^ when the "svorld he left behind, 
 Had died with less bad Latin on his mind. 
 
 15 A/TEAmvHiLE — 'tis most improl^alde and true — 
 I know a man who read Sordello throuirh. 
 Since then, whatever can this wight beftill, 
 Or bad or good he thinks it comical, 
 
 estiment ) 
 3stanicnt ) 
 
 hesitatingly alluded to the difficulty of his name, I believe 
 the poet would answer, in the words of Hoby to his splay- 
 footed customer, " Sir, he under no anxiety, we could iit :v 
 pickaxe." 
 
 For instance : — vocifei'ance > 
 
 difforence > 
 
 stiffer hence j 
 
 Testimei 
 
 Tes 
 
 Mr. Browning himself very frankly describes the nature of 
 his inspiration in the poem of " Christmas Eve." 
 " A tune was born in my head last week. 
 Out of the thump thump and shriek shriek 
 Of the train, as I came up from Manchester, 
 While it only made my neighbour's haunches stir ; 
 Finding in him no musical sprout 
 As in me to be jolted out." 
 
 -■'' Graspar Orelli, the learned editor of Horace.
 
 2 HOBSE AND FOOT; 
 
 E^■en a weckling, or a funeral. 
 
 220 His wife recovered from a three days' trance 
 Like Dorcas ; both his bankers l>roke at once ; 
 His mistress jilted him ; his son forsook 
 Law for the Muse ; his daughter wrote a book : 
 His country, succoured at an awkward pass, 
 
 225 Bade Marochetti libel him in brass :-® 
 
 Sure tlm would harlequins and clowns appal, 
 
 But he, he laughs at this, he laughs at all. 
 
 He laughs in Parliament at Ayrton's-^ speeches, 
 
 He laughs in Church when Canon Wordsworth preaches; 
 
 230 Has e'en been known to call Burnand-^ grotesque, 
 Has half been thought to smile at a burlesque. 
 
 ^^ Lord Elgin used to be abused for despoiling Greece in 
 order to adorn England. I wish the Greeks would retaliate. 
 Bill the liupe is cliinierieiil : barbarian indeed would be the con- 
 queror who Could rob Loudon of her statues. 
 
 -" Member for the Tower Hamlets, and supposed by some to 
 be (he wciglitiest man now before the public, except the gentle- 
 man who writes the theological articles for the Pall Mall Ga- 
 zette. 
 
 28 Q)-(p pf ^]jQ Kibble of punsters that at present infest our 
 stage. Are there no crossings for these gentlemen to sweep,
 
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 He langlis at Life, while here he draws his breath, 
 And only bides liis time to laugh at Death. 
 
 "DUT graver themes demand a sterner lay. 
 And every thought of laughter dies away ; 
 Higli o'er a desk a haunting shade appears, 
 And frowns the tyrant of my infant years ; 
 Again I own the magic of the gown, 
 And hear the awful words, " Sir, take them down.' 
 240 For lo spruce Matthew"^ daAvns upon the view. 
 And back in terror shrinks a scourged Eeview ; 
 
 235 
 
 no party newspapers in which they can write, no private circles 
 that will be pleased with their dull buflboner}' ? It is in vain 
 for them to attempt to lay the blame on the public taste ; I 
 have never seen anybody but a theatrical critic laugh at their 
 contortions ; the public endm-e them from necessity, not from 
 choice, and trv to forget their contempt for the author in tlie 
 liveliness of the spectacle. 
 
 '^^ Mr. Matthew Arnold, late Professor of Poetry at Ox- 
 ford, and author of several critical essays, besides two volumes 
 of poems.
 
 22 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 A poaching lad, who kept a private t'\\'ig. 
 But deemed himself for punishment too big. 
 One hand is raised to Avard the coming blow, 
 
 245 The other wanders to the smart below ; 
 While features settled to a wavering grin, 
 Still hide the fright that still he feels within, 
 And eyes lower doubtful with a sullen light — 
 Loth to suljmit, and very loth to fight, 
 
 250 Doglilce he bays, for baying cheers the heart, 
 And then — remembers Valour's better j)art ; 
 Curlike he whines, and trusts his teeth no more, 
 But licks the hand he thought to wound before : 
 While all the school the- comedy enjoys, 
 
 255 For still he bullies all the weaker boys. 
 
 CiNCE this smart Arnold reigns A\-ithout dispute. 
 And each pretender to the biixh is mute, 
 Let meaner traders to a share agree. 
 He grandly claims a full monopoly. 
 260 Should other quacks ancestral records find, 
 And show prescri})tive right to dose mankind.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 23 
 
 And yearn to rectify all human ills 
 
 With Comtist draughts, and economic pills, 
 
 He shuns the contest, dusty at the best, 
 
 265 And answers all their prosing -with a jest. 
 A thing that proves he's oligarchical. 
 For wit's a weapon not possessed hy all : 
 ' But soon when England's falcon sails are furled. 
 And Beesley or mad Congreve rule the woi"ld, 
 
 270 ^^lien dukes make shoes, and cohblers boast the gout, 
 And human nature's turned right inside out, 
 When each man in his cabbage garden sits,^° 
 And one small prison open but for wits ; 
 Then will the cup of muddy bliss be full, 
 
 275 And all be brothers, well informed, and dull ; 
 And laughing at philosophers will be 
 Proscribed as outrage on Equality. 
 
 'piLL then, great Pedagogue, sublimely rule. 
 Thy wit thy rod, and all the world thy school. 
 
 '° See the millennium as described by Dr. Bodiehon, who seems 
 to be a sliiniug liglit among these soap-aud-^vater philosophers.
 
 24 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 280 On " Grand Style," " Cnlture," still tliou lectur'st well, 
 And still the flesh is tempted to rebel ; 
 Tires of the tedious words in peevish mood. 
 As of the Greek too often called the Good :^' 
 Till me at last that preacher's trick of thine 
 
 285 Almost persuades to be a " Philistine ;"^'^ 
 The giants have some faults we can't excuse, 
 But are not half so priggish as the Jews. 
 
 Mow shift the ground, nor let the game escape, 
 But hunt our quarry in another shape. 
 290 Above not always Phoebus twangs the bow, 
 ISTor Matthew always plies the rod below ; 
 But like a Marquis^^ weary of his state. 
 And for a night forgetting to be great, 
 
 2' An Athenian peasant is said to have voted for the banish- 
 ment of Aristides, simply because he was tu-ed of hearing him 
 called the Just. 
 
 2' Mr. Arnold, I believe, aims at being a citizen of the world. 
 Was it in the world that he learnt his lectm-er's Latin ? 
 
 " The Marquis Towushend, who so graciously exhibited him-
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 
 
 He gi'andly dofts the i)edagogic vest, 
 295 And frisks a fool in motley like tlie rest. 
 But idle all liis i^antomimic show, 
 Constrained and cold the frozen numbers flow ; 
 He moves on stilts, midst lighter heels forlorn, 
 Not like the Marquis " to the manner born." 
 300 Than Baldei^* Woolner boasts no blanker stuff, 
 
 And yet God knows that Woolner's blank enough ; 
 I read them both, and hesitate aghast, 
 For each seems blankest that I read the last ; 
 While if in rhyme some greater skill he shows, 
 305 Yet e'en his sonnets much resemble prose. 
 But should he rules forget and freely sing, 
 And warmed by genial suns of youth and spring. 
 The formal trunk j^ut out a sudden spray. 
 The critic prunes the rebel growth away. 
 
 self to tile Tulgav in the part of clown last year, at the Strand 
 Theatre. 
 
 2^ Balder Dead, one of Mr. Arnold's poems.
 
 26 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 3 1 o Arnold, farewell — and still a critic be, 
 Still steal from Homer all but poetry, 
 Mould lifeless coj)ies of the dead antique. 
 Write learned stuff tliat may be verse in Greek ; 
 Still cliain thy genius in the jail of Time, 
 
 315 And born a Briton fly in face of rhyme ; 
 In English do what monks in Latin did,^^ 
 Be praised by pedants, and by natvire chid : 
 Yet when thy 1)arbarous metres are forgot, 
 When Balder dies, and Mudie knows him not, 
 
 320 When Etna hides Empedocles^" again, 
 
 And e'en thy Merman" sleeps beneath the main ; 
 Thyrsis^^ shall live ; here Friendship fired the lay, 
 
 3^ Tliyt is to say, transplant classical metres into English, 
 as tlie monks wrote Latin rhymes. 
 
 ■"■ Empedocles, a Greek sage who leapt down the Crater of 
 Etna, and has been fished up again by Mr. Arnold to be the 
 hero of a poem . 
 
 ■''" The Forsaken Merman, one of Mr. Arnold's prettiest 
 jioems. 
 
 ■"* Thyrsis, an Elegy on the pi'emature death of the author's 
 friend, Mr. Clougli.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 27 
 
 The man was there, the critic ftir away ; 
 And the sad spuit weeping o'er the grave, 
 325 Where Fate in envy ravished ere she gave, 
 
 Burst its strong bands, a moment wandered free, 
 And shoAved the world the bard it lost in thee ; 
 Thyrsis shall live, and thou in Thyrsis shine, 
 A critic, pedant, coxcomb, yet divine. 
 
 330 "RlJT hark, the wood with other echoes rings, 
 
 And Satyrs gather, for a Satyr sings ; 
 
 Their goatish heads are bent in goatish glee. 
 
 To doggrel used, and mere debauchery : 
 
 For sweet the song, the Ijtc by Phoibus given, 
 335 Captive repeats the melodies of heaven. 
 
 Their beauteous playmates in these haunts that rove, 
 
 Nymphs of the lake, and Dryads of the grove. 
 
 Attend too gentle at the name of love. 
 
 But fair, proud youths, and maids more fair than they, 
 340 Creatures whom Titan formed from better clay,^^ 
 
 Listen in scorn, and hearing turn aAvay. 
 
 39 
 
 Compare JuTeual's beautiful lines, Sat. xir. 31 : —
 
 2 8 KORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 While men, more callous, laugh or fall asleep, 
 \ And I, remembering Atalanta, weep. 
 
 Well— tastes there's no disputing — have your Avill, 
 345 Sing on, and filthy once be filthy still. 
 
 Yet listen, Swinburne, take a friend's advice, 
 A friend that's sensible, and not too nice. 
 Still write of lepers, and pollute your pen, 
 But still remember that you write for men ; 
 
 350 Oh ! be amusing, if you can't be good. 
 
 And, unlike Etty,"" sometimes stir the blood : 
 'Tis scarcely heaven to sing in Holywell, 
 But 'tis the devil to be dull as Avell ; 
 And lithe long lips whose kisses burn and bite, 
 
 355 Fierce aims that smite and slay, or slay and smite. 
 
 " Unus ct alter, 
 Forsitan hsec spernant juvenes, quibus arte beuigna, 
 Et nielioro Into finsit pi*a3cordia Titan." 
 
 <" I never could help laugliing at this painter's pictures : his 
 \n\ce fat women looked so forlorn in their nakedness, that any 
 other sentiment but that of mirtli was, even in a boyish specta- 
 tor, impossible.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 29 
 
 " The bright light feet, the splendid supple thighs," 
 Doves, loves, blood, blushes, serpents, sobs, and sighs. 
 These fleshy raptures, even you must own, 
 Ai'e flat to rakes before their l^eards have grown ; 
 
 360 And maudlin , weeping o'er the bowl. 
 
 Laments and feels his carcase holds a soul. 
 
 Tf flinty nature hears, and half complies, 
 And gives cold lust, but passion still denies ; 
 And love with you, like aldermen's delight, 
 
 365 Is just a habit, or an appetite. 
 
 Yet niake of this what surely may be made, 
 At least, be plain, and call a spade a spade, 
 For who'll be satisfied with words alone. 
 With you in verse, or feebler Scott in stone ! 
 
 370 Words you have plenty, and the words are fine. 
 But put some meaning in tlie liquorish line. 
 For round you gather a confiding crew. 
 Of nymphs, and revellers whom the nymphs pursue ; 
 Ingenuous souls who, eager to be taught, 
 
 375 Think speech was granted to reveal the thought,
 
 30 BORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 But find their error, when you mount the stau's, 
 The hungry congregation sweats and stares ; 
 Yet waits in patience, panting to be fed, 
 Gets store of scorpions, l^ut Httle bread ; 
 
 380 Hears of " dehght's desire, desire's delight," 
 
 Of biting mouths, and " bare throats made to bite," 
 Pangs without number, raptures without end, 
 
 And more than e'er a can comprehend : 
 
 Till Julia ponders o'er your Lampsacenes, 
 
 385 And Clara asks her lovers Avhat it means. 
 Still when the sermon ends, they rise to go, 
 Curious, yet half-contented not to know ; 
 Like other fanatics, whose faith is strong, 
 Humble, and satisfied 'tis something wTong." 
 
 390 'Truce to this prate, I would not leave you so, 
 Spurn me, or hate, yet hear me ere I go ; 
 Cold blame, and colder courtesies apart, 
 T speak a brother to a 1)rother's heart. 
 
 i' A fact.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 31 
 
 "\^TIiat wonder cast upon this tedious time, 
 
 395 Curst vn.l\\ tlie curse of genius and of rhyme; 
 A minstrel exiled in the tents of Prose, 
 Where tuneless slaves cant virtue through the nose ; 
 What wonder youth, hfe, genius should rebel, 
 And sick of Eden, Ccill for fruit from Hell, 
 
 400 -Reject the cup whence happiness is spilt, 
 And seek a dull forgetfulness in guilt ! 
 Yet, though j'our lips are red with Circe's wine, 
 And, scorning fools, you stooj) to herd with swine ; 
 Not this the field for Atalanta's knight, 
 
 405 The glorious son of Phoebus and of light : 
 Far other queen, and other wreaths are due, 
 Yours are your Ijallads, l3ut thej^ are not you : 
 Again I ponder till the lamp burns low, 
 Althea's crime, and Meleager's woe ; 
 
 410 Althea, b}' her hate, her love undone. 
 The mourner, mother, slayer of her son ; 
 And you I single from the nameless dead. 
 And claim tiie fadeless laurel for \owv head.
 
 32 HORSE AXD FOOT; 
 
 Hence, loathly shapes ! and nightborn dreams away 
 4 1 5 Freed from the rank mists soars the lord of day ; 
 So Swinburne soars, again attempts the skies, 
 And other Atalantas'- shall arise ; 
 Still shall he soar, transcendent o'er the sphere, 
 And reign the monarch of our sunless year. 
 
 420 TsJext 'neath his dramas, Taylor staggers in, 
 
 And pains and perils for my stairs begin ; 
 
 Last of the sons of poor Melpomene, 
 
 And heaviest of a heavy family. 
 
 All ye, that cherish piously a life, 
 425 Dear to your country, creditor, or Avife, 
 
 Or whom mere habit basely tempts to live, 
 
 •I- Mr. Swinburne is bound to fulfil the splendid promise of 
 liis first play, if only to show that my simile has not run away 
 ■with me. Atalanta lias the disadvantage of being the production 
 of an Englishman, wlio is throughout trying, much to the 
 delight of the critics and antiquarians, to write as if he was a 
 Greek, and altogether smells somewhat too much of the lamp ; 
 but, for all that, it is a noble poem. And what must be tlie 
 force of a genius that is not obscured even by extinct modes of 
 thought and barbarous idioms ?
 
 OB, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 33 
 
 (live ear, and take the warning tliat I give. 
 If Taylor skates, the treacherous sport forbear ; 
 Cross not a bridge, if Taylor lingers there ; 
 430 Walk if he rides, nor jeopardise a limb ; 
 And sooner sail with Jonah than with him : 
 Where fate is sure, 'tis folly not to fear. 
 And go not e'en on solid earth too near. 
 
 Qr all his plays " Van Artevelde" 's the best, 
 435 A few read this, no mortal reads the rest ; 
 
 Of all the plays with wliich my memory's curst, 
 'Tis true " Van Artevelde " is not the worst. 
 Great Philip, soberly his course he ran, 
 A philosophic and self-governed man 
 440 In love, in hate, in every point but one, 
 
 And there the curb was loosened or undone. 
 He talked — left others worship, pomp and pelf. 
 But talking kept as sacred to himself — 
 Lord, how he talked ! of all the •v\dghts I know, 
 445 Few talk so long, and no one talks so slow ; 
 
 3
 
 34 EORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 So Eicliter's'^ horse, the -woiuler of the way, 
 Kid Ijy a German thuiker, irallcd away ; 
 The thinker pulled, but still he pulled in vain ; 
 For help he cried, but all his cries disdain ; 
 
 450 To stop the creature 'twas beyond his poAver, 
 Or make him go one other mile tlie hour : 
 So. spent and faint, we let our anger fall. 
 And think it grace that Philip stops at all. 
 Once off, no pity can tliat tongue restrain, 
 
 455 And when he breathes, 'tis but to start again. 
 As at the chase, when Majesty was near, 
 'Twas treason if a courtier .struck the deer ; 
 If others speak, no quarter will he give, 
 But deems it insult to prerogative ; 
 
 *'■* I tliiiik it is Riclitei- tbat tells the story of the horse that 
 ivalked away with a philosopher. This animal had the pecu- 
 liarity of being utterly indifferent to either curb or spur ; 
 nothing could induce it either to go out of its walk, or to stop. 
 It was useless for the rider to cry for help, as people only 
 thought him mad, w hen they saw the tranquil pace at which the 
 beast was going.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. '■ 
 
 460 Makes war, makes peace, makes love" in monologue, 
 And scents a rebel in a dialogue. 
 
 "Dehold liim, victor, safe from war's alarms. 
 And blest in love's and Adriana's arms ! 
 On pleasure bent lie keeps a ruler's mind," 
 465 Nor leaves one duty unperformed behind : 
 At mercy's call lie stiffens into rock, 
 And firm sends out Lord Occo to the block ; 
 Next melting ^^ greets his mistress with the line, 
 Now, Adrlana, I am irlioUij thine. 
 
 ■''' Pliilip is certainly the prosiest lover iu the whole realm 
 of fiction. 
 
 ^^ Compare Mrs. Grilpin : — 
 
 " For though ou pleasure she was bent, 
 She had a frugal mind." 
 
 *^ See the following lines al the end of the First Part of 
 " Philip Van Arterelde " :— 
 " Adeiana : 
 
 Oh, spare him ! speak not now of shedding blood, 
 Now in this hour of happiness ! Oh, spare him ! 
 Vengeance is God's, whose function take not thou ; 
 Eeleut, Van Ai-terelde, and spare his life.
 
 -f^ 
 
 •,6 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 470 Then when she died some decent tears he shed, 
 And comfort found with Elena instead. 
 
 ^LAS ! too oft the richest minds and hearts 
 Are ruined by the greatness of their parts ; 
 Drain nature's wine too rashly to the lees, 
 475 And destined heroes sink to debauchees, 
 
 Philip : 
 
 Not though an angel ph^ad. Vengeance is God's, 
 
 But Grod doth oftentimes dispense it here 
 
 By hmnan ministration. To my hands 
 
 He rendered victory this eventful day 
 
 For uses higher than my happiness. 
 
 Let Flanders judge me from my deeds to-night, 
 
 Tliat I from this time forth will thus proceed, 
 
 Justice, with mercy tempering where I may, 
 
 But executing always. Lead him out. (Occo is led out.) 
 
 Now, Adriana, I am wholly thine." 
 It would have been weakness to have pardoned this scoun- 
 drelly assassin ; it is brutal to order liis execiilion and make 
 love in the same breath. But Philip is a philosopher, and 
 has his feelings almost as perfectly trained as Fielding's Blifil. 
 Thwackum woidd have triumphed in tlie piety displayed in 
 this speech, and Square would have been dissolved in emotion 
 at the name of justice, which, by-the-bye, was his pupil's 
 great virtue. ;
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 37 
 
 Svirpassucl by those, whose natural gifts were had, 
 Who wisely husbanded what gifts they had. 
 Yet, better far, such ruin'd wreck to.be, 
 Than this cold compound of philosophy. 
 4S0 And you, tliat in your narrow rules conlin'd," 
 Say mastering passion speaks a feeble mind ; 
 
 *' Mr. Taylor, in his preface to "Philip Van ArtevckTe," 
 after jjroving to the best of his ability, that prose is more 
 poetical than poetry, proceeds to the following remarks on Lord 
 Byron : — 
 
 " Lord Byron's conception of a hero is an evidence not 
 only of scanty materials of knowledge from which to construct 
 the ideal of a human being, but also of a want of perception 
 of what is great or noble in our nature. His heroes are 
 creatures abandoned to their passions, a7id essentially, therefore, 
 weak of mind. Strip them of the veil of mystery, and the 
 trappings of poetry, resolve them into their plain realities, 
 and they are such beings as, in the eyes of a reader of mascu- 
 line judgment, would certainly excite no sentiment of admira- 
 tion, even if tliey did not provoke contempt. When the 
 conduct and feelings attribxited to them are reduced to prose 
 and brought to the test of a rational consideration, they must 
 be perceived to be beings in whom there is no strength except 
 that of their intensely selfish passions, in whom all is vanity ; 
 their exertions being for vanity under the name of love or
 
 SS HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 KnoAY, if 'tis brightest, happiest to succeed, 
 Still it is something in such strife to bleed ; 
 
 revenge, and tlieir sufferings for vanity nnder the name of 
 pride. If such beings as these are to be regarded as heroieal 
 ■n'here in liuuian nature are we to look for what is low in senti- 
 ment and infirm in eliavaetcr?" 
 
 To all this I shall only observe that Lord Byron never pro- 
 fessed " to construet ideals of human beings " (tliat is Mr. Tay- 
 lor's business), but expressly stated, again and again, that his 
 Conrads and Laras were equally guilty and unfortunate. Next, 
 the demand that poetical conceptions shall be " stripped of their 
 poetry and reduced fo prose," may seem too absurd to be con- 
 sidered ; yet, even if this be done. Lord Byron's heroes will 
 not, to any one that knows anything of human nature, appear 
 " puerile creations." What Mr. Taylor's " reader of niaseu- 
 line judgment," might think of them, I am not curious to in- 
 quire : perhaps lie would be able to look with contempt on 
 Milton's " Satan,'' and Homer's " Achilles." 
 
 Mr. Taylor backs up liis prose with some verses : — 
 
 " Tlien learned T to despise that far-famed school, 
 Wlio place in wickedness their pride, and deem 
 Power chiefly to be showiT where passions rule. 
 And not where they are ruled ; in wliose new selieme 
 Of heroism, self-government shovdd seem 
 A thing left out, or something to contemn,
 
 OB, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 39 
 
 Nobler to die, or li\'iiig bear the scar, 
 4S5 Than coldly stand a neutral to the war. 
 
 Whose notions, incoherent as a dream, 
 
 Make strength go witli the torrent, and not stem. 
 
 For ' wicked and thence weak,' is not a creed for tliem. 
 
 " I k^ft these passionate weakUngs, I perceived 
 
 What took away all dignity from pride ; 
 
 All nobleness from sorrow, wliat bereaved 
 
 E'en genius of respect, they seemed allied 
 
 To mendicants, that by the highway side 
 
 Expose their self-inflicted wounds, to gain 
 
 The alms of sympathy — far best denied — 
 
 I heard the sorrowful sensualist complain. 
 
 If with compassion, not without disdain." 
 I don't think this needs any comment ; and my readers must 
 be as hasty as I am, to bid farewell to this bourgeois ci-iticism, 
 of a man whose poems are the chief glory of our century, and 
 whose very faults betrayed tlie greatness of his soul. Of all 
 our English poets there are, to my mind, three, and three only, 
 whose genius is wholly untinctiu'cd by pedantry, and wlio draw 
 their inspiration directly from life and nature. I mean, of 
 course, Shakespeare, Burns, and Byi-on ; and, putting aside Mil- 
 ton, who may be said to stand by himself, it is next to Shake- 
 speare, I predict, that posterity will rank Lord Byron. Mean-
 
 HORSE AXD FOOT; 
 
 " Weak, selfish," say you, Shakespeare thought not so. 
 Was Juliet selfish 1 weak was Romeo 1 
 
 while, thanks to the effoi'ts of a school of timid and shallow 
 critics, he is nowhere so little honoured as in liis own coun- 
 try ; but in other lands, to use his own words, his strains : — 
 "Have found the fame these shoi'es refuse. 
 His place of birth alone is mute." 
 In brief, he is one of the few of oiu' wi'iters who have an Eu- 
 ropean reputation. As was said of him by the greatest of his 
 contemporaries : — 
 
 " At present, we can only console ourselves with the convic- 
 tion that his country will at length recover from that violence 
 of invective and reproach which has been so long raised against 
 him, and learn to xuiderstand that the dross and lees of the age 
 and the iudividual, out of which the best have to elevate them- 
 selves, are but perishable and ti-ansient, while the wonderful 
 glory to which he has ia the present, and through all future 
 ages, elevated his country, will be as boundless in its splendour 
 as it is incalculable in its consequences. Nor can there be any 
 doubt that the nation which can boast of so many great names, 
 will class Byeon among the fii-st of those through whom she 
 has acquired such glory." 
 
 Elsewhere he says that " liis unfathomable qualities are not 
 to be reached by words." 
 
 I chanced on this quotation just as I was sending these notes
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARXASSUS. 4' 
 
 Was Hamlet base 1 Othello vain ? and he, 
 Who, fiilling deepest, fell an Antony, 
 490 And left, the victor of a thousand harms, 
 A Roman's honour in a harlot's arms — 
 If these are fit to be contemned, say, 
 Who Avould not be contemptible as they ! 
 
 'T^is well, life, passion, nature still abuse, 
 495 And glory's bays to Byron's^^ shade refuse ; 
 
 to the press. Agaiast the miinber and weight of Lo\'d Byrou's 
 detractors, the lance of a tyro hke myself could make but Uttle 
 impression. But, with Goethe on my side, I can ask : — 
 " apicicret, r)e tiv' dWov d^vvTO^a fitpiirjpi'iuj ;" 
 As for the accusations that he was possessed by " an absorb- 
 ing and contracting self-love," and that " liis misanthropy, like 
 his tenderness, was probably assumed for purposes of effect," 
 those who make them can scarcely have read his life. Study 
 his writings, his history, where will you find a more genuine, 
 nay, a more recklessly truthful man ? As to his selfishness, 
 whose distress did he ever turn a deaf ear to ? and in what 
 cause did he die ? 
 
 ^^ As to the assci'tion that Lord Byron was " in knowledge 
 merely a man of belles lettres, and never applied himself to
 
 42 EOBSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Out Wordsworth Wordsworth, this is Phoehus' curse, 
 And be preposterous where he was perverse ; 
 That verse is prose was all he had to tell, 
 You that 'tis prose, and abstract prose"' as well : 
 500 AVrite more, write longer dramas, do your worst. 
 And froglike vie with Shakespeare till you liurst ; 
 Each reader damns the neA'^er-ending stave, 
 And kingly Byron trium})hs in his grave. 
 
 such studies as ■would have tended to the cultiration of his rea- 
 soning powers, and the enlargement of Ins mind ;" in tlie fii-st 
 place to be a man of belles lettres means more t lian the critic 
 seems to imagine ; in the second, great poets have generally 
 studied men more than books. Further, Lord Bvron some- 
 times shows, as in his speech on the "Nottingham Frame 
 EiTaber's Bill," tliat even on subjects which he did not profess, 
 he had sounder and more philosophical views than many of his 
 contemporaries. 
 
 ■*' Compare Mr. Taylor's dictum that " no man can be a very 
 great poet, who is not also a great philosopher." I believe the 
 converse to be nearer the truth : Aristophanes, Ilobbes, and 
 Locte are instances in point.
 
 OR, PILaJRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 
 
 gUT hush, admire ! a Laureate strikes the strings, 
 505 And praises Albert for begetting kings ; 
 Tells us hoAv Enoch left his home ami Avife, 
 And came, Avhen least expected, back to life : 
 How Edith, Maud, and fifty maidens more, 
 "V^Hiom ladies proud to landed scoundrels bore, 
 510 Died of their love, or else that love forgot. 
 And straight espoused a sportsman or a sot ; 
 While their bard lived another jilt to woo. 
 Composed a poem, and forgot them too. 
 But that it's wrong for girls to disobey, 
 515 And poets must be moral now a-day, 
 I wonder why they did not run away. 
 
 r\V. lioAv a clerk, hvt genthj lorn and Jired, 
 Turned round, and broke a medicine-glass''" in bed, 
 
 5" From the " City Clerk" :— 
 
 " Nav," snid the kiiully wife to eomfovt liiin, 
 " You raised your arm, vou tumhled down and broke 
 The glass with little Margaret's medicine in it ; 
 And, breakhig that, you made and broke your dream.
 
 44 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Snored, started, groaned, then dreamed a dream of Life, 
 520 And told tlie tedious vision to his wife : 
 Who also dreamed, and piously inclined, 
 Kevenged herself upon her spouse in kind : 
 I know not what's the music of the spheres,"^ 
 But 'twas a discord to my carnal ears. 
 
 525 Cee next the huge Geraint, Boeotian lord. 
 Great at the fight, l)ut greater at the board ; 
 Whose foes go down whene'er his lance he lowers. 
 Who eats the dinner of a field of mowers f' 
 Who when Earl Doorm had eaten all he Avould, 
 
 530 That is, when Doorm had eaten all he could, 
 
 5' From tlie " City Clevk" : — 
 
 " Sphere-music sucli as tluit you ilrcunicd about." 
 
 ^- In the characters in Mr. Tennyson's " Idylls," as in Monsieur 
 Florian's pastorals, the habits of one class or age are somewhat 
 incongruously joined T.ith the sentiment of iinother. For in- 
 stance, Geraint fights and eats like a Homeric cliampiou,but talks 
 and thinks like the hero of a modern novel.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 
 
 Leaps up, though lying on a shield half dead, 
 And sends a faulchion flashing through his head. 
 Thanks to the hard whose sacred song declares 
 Tliat there Avere ruffians e'en before Tom Sayers. 
 535 could Geraint again his feats rehearse. 
 And strike in earnest as he strikes in verse, 
   He'd swell the volume of great TyrAvhitt's cares. 
 And Mace would tremble for the belt he wears. 
 
 "T^IME fails to tell how Percivale got drunk, 
 540 And waged unequal battle with a punk : 
 Or how the sweet Sir Sagramore was laid, 
 A stainless man heside a stainless maid : 
 Modest as Pickwick with the morn he fled, 
 The brute irorld hoiiiinrj forced him back to bed ; 
 545 What though the pair were lying cheek l)y jowl. 
 The brute world truly had no cause to howl. 
 Sure in that court the youth must virtuous be, 
 Where aged lechers prate of purity. 
 And so farewell to Vivien's naughty tales, 
 550 I'm told the custom still ol)taius in Wales.
 
 46 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 T5UT cease ! let Folly for a space refrain. 
 And doff his tall cap as he greets Elaine ; 
 In fancy's fiery realms he's wandered long, 
 IMarked many a sprite, and paused at many a song ; 
 555 Wept, wondered, laughed, as crossed in peace or strife 
 The players in the comedy of Life : 
 Much has he seen, hut nought there was to see, 
 So spotless, fair, and piteous as she. 
 
 Peace to her shade— now shake the bells once more, 
 560 Nor keep a hero waiting at the door. 
 
 For Arthur comes — not he of ancient fame — 
 
 A selfless, stainless shadow of a name : 
 
 liohed in red .•>iimite, worn l>y him alone. 
 
 Without it, not so easy to he hwini ; 
 565 A gentleman from Progress' mint is he, 
 
 Brand-new, and plated hy morality. 
 
 Dame Nature stares at this her bastard son, 
 
 And sees her lawful progeny outdone, 
 
 And proved herself a bungler at the trade, 
 570 By that perfection Avhicli she never made.
 
 OR, PILGBUIS TO PARNASSUS. 47 
 
 She stares and grasps lier chisel in her hands, 
 And flies to ruder and less finished lands ; 
 Where what she strikes out on her random plan, 
 May breathe and still pass muster as a man. 
 575 There (where ! heaven knows,) her busy shop she rears, 
 And England leaves her tailors and her shears. 
 
 "Rut sure, if Arthur e'er conies back to men. 
 As all true Britons wish him back again, 
 Before he kicks Disraeli down the stairs, 
 580 Or exiles Gladstone and the doctrinaires, 
 He'll ask the poet for an explanation. 
 Or bring his action for a defamation. 
 
 TSJext there's a swarm of insects on the wing. 
 Inspired by id] esse, puberty and Spring ; 
 585 As reverend "Watts avers that puppies do. 
 They sing because " it is tlieir nature to ;" 
 Forgetting still, tliougli plain tlie thing ap}teiirs. 
 If they have tongues, tiiat other folk have ears.
 
 c 
 
 48 HOBSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Some plunder "Wordsworth tliro' eacli shining hour, 
 590 Others, as Owcn^^ fly from flower to flower, 
 
 Whatever author graced their schoolboy shelves ; 
 And others copy no one but themselves ; 
 A savage folk, yet honestest of all, 
 And e'en in dulness most original. 
 
 595 Y^T for all this there's reason and excuse. 
 Nor bad the thing, but bad the thing's abuse. 
 Mumps, Chicken-pox, a score of these there be. 
 Affections natural to infancy, 
 The Measles, Whooping-cough, and Poetry — 
 
 600 And when they're children that the clamour make, 
 E'en tho' they keep the neighbourhood awake, 
 We take the matter as a thing of course. 
 And think their crying only proves their force. 
 We were boys once, nor 'scaped the common strife, 
 
 605 But 'tis the devil when they whoop for life. 
 
 '2 Mr. Owen Meredith, author of " Clytemnestra," " The 
 Earl's Return," " Lucile," " The Wanderer," and other poems.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 49 
 
 "T^His^Owen does, by manhood but made bolder, 
 And whoops the wilder as he grows the older. 
 An early blight on Owen's being hung, 
 His heart was old, although his day was young ; 
 
 6io Chamijagne he drank, but could not soothe his gTicf, 
 He flu'ted, found in flirting no relief: 
 At last, as children, tired of cakes and play, 
 Kill flies to while the tedious hours away. 
 Grown fierce, he seeks distraction for his mind, 
 
 6 1 5 And finds it in the torment of his kind. 
 
 One moment, maundering in a classic strain. 
 And Agamemnon^^ murdering again. 
 The next, he bears on meaner cares intent, 
 Command in Browning's ragged regiment ; 
 
 620 Rakes stews and jails for words to serve his turn, 
 And drills the miscreants in the Earl's Return.^* 
 
 *' lu his " Clytemnestra." 
 
 ^^ The " EaiTs Return," an echo of Mr. Browning's spirited 
 poem, " The.Flight of the Ducliess." 
 
 4
 
 50 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Then fired by high ambition for the nonce, 
 To shine bad noveUst and bad bard at once, 
 Sudden he gives his lumbering jade the heel, 
 625 And jolters through the sorrows of Lucile.'^ 
 And last a Wanderer," confident of wing. 
 Singing the noblest subject man can sing, 
 Scornful he flings his puppets on the shelf, 
 And boldly soars the Laureate of himself. 
 
 630 AJext Kingsley's'^ being bubbles into song. 
 
 Why ! Memory, why the splashing sounds prolong ! 
 Kingsley, the stout Apostle of our time, 
 Now sinks in blank verse, and now rolls in rhyme, 
 Potent in both, but most of all prefers 
 
 635 To flounder, whalelike, in Hexameters : 
 
 ^^ " Lucilc," a sort, of novel in singularly rugged verse. 
 
 " The volume entitled " The Wanderer," consists of a series 
 of short poems ; the hero throughout is Mr. Oweu Meredith. 
 
 58 Mr. Kingsley has wi-itten " Andromeda," a poem iu hexa- 
 meter verse, and other shorter pieces.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 51 
 
 Wliile sighing dolphins'^ wanton o'er the tides, 
 Smit with his maidens and their long white sides. 
 The horrid metre, indiscreet and hot, 
 A drunken Pedant upon Discord got, 
 640 Deep in a cave,*^° where Prosody was not. 
 
 All nature groaned, while Duluess gave the sign, 
 And on their hill-top shrieked aloud the Nine. 
 
 '^ From his " Andi'omeda " ; — 
 
 " the wantoning dolphins 
 Sighed as they plunged full of love." 
 and 
 
 " Cold on the cold sea-weeds lav the long white sides of the 
 maiden." 
 
 ^ Compare Virgil's MneiA. -. — 
 
 "• Speluncam Dido dux et Trojauus eamdem 
 Deveuiunt. Prima et Tellus et pronuba Juno 
 Dat signum : fulsere ignes et conscius sether 
 Connubiis ; summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphaj. 
 Ille dies primus leti primusque malorum 
 Causa fuit. Neque enim specie famave movetur 
 Nee jam furtivimi Dido meditatur amorem : 
 Conjugium vocat ; hoc praetexit nomine culpam." 
 
 4—3
 
 52 IIOBSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Sure on that day the fated, time began, 
 Foretokl Ijy prophets*" and long feared by man, 
 645 When on a tlirone the goddess shall be seen, 
 And over willing subjects reign a queen. 
 Yet on the birth too gracious Arnold"- smiled, 
 And kinglike stood godfather to the child : 
 
 ^' The reign of Dulness prophesied in the Duueiad. 
 
 ^- It is fair to mention that Spenser set him the example, as 
 is shown bj the following letter to Gabriel Harvey : — 
 
 " I like your late English hexameters so exceedingly well, 
 that I also cnm-e my pen something in that kind, which I find, 
 indeed, as I have often heard you defend in word, neither so 
 hard nor so harsh but that it will easily and fairly yield itself 
 to our motlier tongue. The only or cliiefest hardness which 
 seemetli is in the accent ; which sometime gapeth, and, as it 
 were, yawneth, ill-favouredly, coming short of that it should, 
 and soniLtimo exceeding the measure of the number; as in 
 Carpenter, the middle syllable being used sliort in speech, when 
 it shall be read long in verse seemeth like a lame gosling, that 
 dniweth one leg after her ; and Heaven, being used short as 
 one syllable, when it is in verse stretched out with a diastole, 
 is like a dog that holdeth up one leg. But it is to be won with 
 custom, and rough words must be subdued with use." 
 
 He subjoins two Elegiacs " which I translated to you in bed 
 the lust time we lay together in Westminster : —
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 5 
 
 While leaden Cayley^^ snuffed the approach of fate, 
 650 And sate him down in triumph to translate. 
 
 But Kingsley, Kingsley, whence can Kingsley be ! 
 ^¥llo o'er dead journals pens an elegy/* 
 Writes odes, and A\Tites them to the blighting East,*^^ 
 The wind that's good for neither man nor beast : 
 655 Nor man, nor beast the sturdy prophet bore, 
 But some lone crag upon some Arctic shore. 
 And wolves admiring nursed with milk and gore. 
 
 ' That which I eat did I joy, and that wliicli I greedily gorged ; 
 As for those many goodly matters left I for others.' " 
 
 ^^ Mr. C. B. Cayley, author of "Specimens from Lucretius in 
 English Hexameters," and other barbarous actions of tlie like 
 kind. The only atrocity that I see left for him is to naturalise 
 the Spenserian stanza in Latin, and put the " Fairy Queen " 
 into Latin rhymes. 
 
 "* See the poem entitled " On the Death of a Certain 
 Journal." It seems that it was yawned to death. 
 
 ''•* Mr. Kingsley really has written an " Ode to tlie p]ast 
 Wind," and not such a bad one either.
 
 54 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Thus in a rock^^ a pining wife lie finds, 
 And likes the East wind best of all the winds, 
 660 Since first, like Orson, from his wilds he ran, 
 And came to shame the puny race of man. 
 
 ]^/[eek Oxford called, and Francis" swift arose, 
 Verse his profession, but his practice prose. 
 Tho' not to him Apollo's harp be given, 
 
 665 Nor large his portion of the fire of Heaven, 
 Yet there is this, and this redeems his lay, 
 'Tis most unlike its brethren of to-day ; 
 Where ceaseless fall, Avhate'er the theme has been, 
 Words, idle words, I know not what they mean. 
 
 670 In short, I've read his book from end to end, 
 And what I praise not still can comprehend. 
 
 ^'' On a rock that gleams beneath the sunshine, but whose 
 seaweed is di-ooping, being forsaken by the sea : — 
 " So many a wife for cruel man's caresses 
 Must inly pine and pine, yet outward bear 
 A gallant front to this world's gaudy glare." 
 
 «' Sir Francis Doyle, author of " The Return of the Guards," 
 and other poems ; also Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
 
 OB, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 55 
 
 In better days men loved their liquor fine, 
 
 Nor mud admired in poets or in wine. 
 
 Did gifts of puzzling to a wiglit belong ? 
 675 He turned his wits to riddling, not to song ; 
 
 Or if more thoughtful and more puzzling still. 
 
 Northward he hied, and lectured on Freewill. 
 
 As Avon clear let Shakespeare's waters run, 
 
 Let Byron soar an eagle to the sun ; 
 680 Our bards,^® more prudent, mostly walk by night, 
 
 And like Imposture ever fly the light, 
 
 Nor risk detection 'mongst Aurora's brood, 
 
 But skulk beneath the shadow of the wood. 
 
 Great may their thought, and vast their meaning be, 
 685 'Tis vain to question what one cannot see ; 
 
 And real perhaps the something that they think, 
 
 Though like the cuttlefish it 'scapes in ink. 
 
 ^- Our living poets are, it must be admitted, detestably ob- ^ 
 sc'ure. Indeed, some of them seem to plume themselves on 
 this quality, knowing perhaps, that the mystery of the oracle is 
 sometimes accepted by the vulgar as a proof of its inspiration.
 
 56 EOESE AND FOOT; 
 
 'V/'et to Experience Charity must bow, 
 And sadly wise I register a vow, 
 6qo Curst be this hand, and bliglited be this pen, 
 If I with Cluvien*'^ nutting go again ! 
 Nuts did I get, and cracking did begin. 
 Broke half my teeth, and maggots found within. 
 
 IVJext tuneful Houghton™ brings a tasteful toil, 
 695 Let loftier Houghton share the praise of Doyle. 
 
 "NTow thro' these shadows looms a real man, 
 Nature his art, and pleasing all his plan. 
 If there be one, and many there must be, 
 \ Sick of prose-verse and tradesmen's tragedy, 
 700 Who keeps a place for Fancy in his heart, 
 And scorns the new photography of Art : 
 Or he by dull Analysis made sad, 
 By Faith fall'n sick, and drivelling Doubt run mad 
 
 ^^ Cluvienus, a poetaster mentioned by JuTcual. Any modern 
 bard -whose conscience reproaches liim may take the compliment 
 to himself. 
 
 *'^ Lord Iloughton, author of scTcral short pieces.
 
 OR, FILGRUIS TO PARNASSUS. 57 
 
 Who in each bard a puling sophist fears, 
 710 And, hke the adder, wisely stops his ears. 
 
 List once again, for Morris '• weaves the lay, 
 
 Morris, the story-teller of our day. 
 
 Nor buskiued phrase, nor mouthy rant is there, 
 
 With point far-fetched, and artifice worn bare ; 
 715 Tranquil and still his liquid numbers flow. 
 
 And, Thames-like, gather volume as they go. 
 
 Vet next in England win thy Golden Fleece," 
 Nor haunt for aye the phantom-land of Greece : 
 For now the gods and goddesses are dead, 
 720 Ghosts in the Hades of a scholar's head. 
 Too daring wizard, take thy harp again. 
 And sing like Homer of thy countrymen. 
 
 71 air. William Morris, author of "The Life and Death of 
 Jason," a poem which will make its way. He is a disciple of 
 Chaucer, and uses the metre of the " Canterbury Tales." 
 
 '- The winning of the Golden Fleece was Jason's great ex- 
 ploit.
 
 5''^ HORSE AXD FOOT; 
 
 y^S Nature roamed in Cliildhood's fields alone, 
 She heard a voice as careless as her own ; 
 725 Sudden she turned, and marked Eossetti'^ there, 
 So playful, sweet, and innocent of air ; 
 Silent the goddess gazed, then pitying smiled, 
 And stayed her hand, and left her still a child. 
 
 J^AST the Pedestrians clamour at Fame's door, 
 730 Three gentlemen, a lady, and no more ; 
 If more there be that thus unmounted go. 
 Their names I know not, may I never know ! 
 A smartish roadster Houghton does not lack, 
 And Francis"* owns, and Owen rides a hack ; 
 735 Sometimes he steals it, and sometimes he begs : 
 E'en Kingsley'^ keeps a something on three legs. 
 
 " Miss Christina Rossetti, authoress of the "Goblin Market," 
 and other short pieces. I nerer read anything so arch and original 
 as these poems ; they remind one a good deal of Walter Scott's 
 little friend Margei'y. 
 
 ^^ Sir Francis Doyle. 
 
 '5 And, under the circumstances, goes belter than one would 
 expect.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 59 
 
 These wisely feel, however fools may talk, 
 'Tis safer and 'tis easier to walk. 
 
 pTiEST gentle Ingelow/'' like Prose at play, — 
 740 No pushing, Patmore ! for the fair make way : 
 Noblesse oblige, and if your boast is true, 
 That no one sings so sillily as you ; 
 Then none can Avaive so gracefully a right, 
 'Tis Greatness' privilege to be polite. 
 
 745 _/V ^^^^ there is, was always, will be still, 
 
 Say prophets, and say pedants, what they will — 
 A race there is, that thrives in Britain's air, 
 In France, Rome, Gaza, Sion, everywhere ; 
 Who, there, or here, help nations to be great, 
 
 750 And form the sure foundation of a state : 
 
 Whate'er their creed, dress, country, or their name 
 The same, and, e'en in Ireland, still the same. 
 
 "* Miss Jean Ingelow, authoress of the " Story of Doom," and 
 othei" poems.
 
 6o HOBSE AXD FOOT; 
 
 
 
 Here, in this island, these their habits are — 
 They read not much, nor care to travel far, 
 
 755 Pay taxes, beat their spouses now and then, 
 
 Get drunk at times to show they're Englishmen, 
 Believe in God, like eating Avhat they list, 
 Love not a gossip or a journalist, 
 Work hard, wear well, fear nothing but disgrace, 
 
 760 Know a good pointer or a pretty face, 
 Buy in cheap markets, sell again in dear, 
 Get sons, go shooting i' the fall 0' the year, 
 Dislike quack-doctors, more dislike dissent, 
 Distrust a wit, and hate an argument, 
 
 765 Wonder at times in winter or wet weather, 
 When two or three sit silent on together, 
 Who made a pole-cat or a radical ? 
 Or why teetotallers were made at all % 
 Keep a sleek horse, and, Avhen they can, keep two- 
 
 770 In short do all things that they ought to do. 
 
 T ONG may they live, and happy may they be ! 
 Still, two things hate they — Debt and Poetry ;
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 6i 
 
 And one thing love — Eespectability. 
 
 But all moves on, the schoolmaster's abroad, 
 775 And steam has driven the coaches from the road. 
 
 They, with the rest, corrupted and refined. 
 
 Demand some dissipation fur the mind. 
 
 Yet Prudence still liolds empire in tlieir breast. 
 
 Imagination seems a doubtful guest ; 
 780 Something they want, like Jourdain in his woes. 
 
 Safe, fine, and neither Poetry nor Prose." 
 
 'T'o these fair Jean, with Patraore, comfort brings, 
 For them she labours and t(j them she sings. 
 Great Longman hails the Avoman of the time, 
 785 And blank verse follows on the heels of rhyme, 
 
 '" In " The Bourgeois Gentilhomme," Mousieur Jourdain's 
 Master in Philosophy asks him wliether his billet to his mistress 
 shall be in verse : — 
 
 " M. Jourdain. Non, non ; point de vers. 
 Philosoph. Vous ne voiilez qiie de la prose ? 
 M. JotTEDAiN. Non, je ne tcux ni pi-ose ni vers. 
 Philosoph. II faut' bien que ce soit I'un ou I'autre. 
 M. JouEDAiN. Poui'quoi ?"
 
 62 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Editions to editions still succeed, 
 The men they buy them, and the women read. 
 For all necessities of Luxury, 
 French-masters, Music, and Prose-Poetry — 
 
 790 These still the fair, and not the men, regard. 
 They talk the French, and listen to the bard. 
 Music is music, be it poor or fine, 
 And scan or not scan, still a line's a line, 
 French French, and creditable — bad or good, 
 
 795 Nor it, nor verse need e'er be understood. 
 She sang of married and of marrying men, 
 And still she pleased, and still she sang again ; 
 Of sermons,'^ rectors, curates, and their wives, 
 And all the miseries of single lives ; 
 
 "•^ But iu this she is not peculiar, nearly every poet preaches 
 now-a-days ; Miss Ingelow in " Tlie Brothers," Mr. Teixayson 
 in " Aylmer's Field ;" while Mr. Patmore carries off the palm 
 ■with a " Wedding Sermon," of some thirty pages, remembering, 
 I suppose, Horace's precept : — 
 
 " Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci." 
 The actors will be the next in the field.
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 6 
 
 800 And still on marriage lavished all her art," 
 
 She sang — and reached the British matron's heart. 
 
 o 
 
 ''^ See the poem called " Laurence :" — 
 
 " Then the gu4 in her first joutli, 
 
 Married a curate 
 
 Full soon, for happy years are short, they filled 
 The house with children." 
 Curates always do. See " Story of Doom :" — 
 
 " And when two days were over, Japhet said, 
 ' Mother, so jilease you, get a wife for me. 
 
 Or else I shall be wifeless all my days. 
 
 Now, therefore, let a wife be found for me.' " 
 And in the poem called " The Letter L," a father actually 
 comes from the dead to warn his bachelor son in these words : — 
 " I say to thee, though free from care, 
 A lonely lot, an aimless life ; 
 The crowning comfort is not there — 
 Son, take a wife." 
 The sou eventually adopts this advice and marries, although 
 his heart has been lost elsewhere. Some years afterwards, his 
 old love meets him, and being something of a flirt, reminds him 
 of his eai'ly passion. He answers not very politely ; — 
 " ' It may be so, for then,' said he, 
 ' I was a fool.' "
 
 64 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 ^LSO she told tlie story of the flood, 
 And mended Scrijiture in a daring mood ; 
 
 And tlieii, turning to his wife, observes : — 
 
 " ' My wife, how beautiful jou are !' 
 Then closer at her side recHued. 
 ' The bold browii woman from afar, 
 Comes to me blind. 
 
 " ' And by comparison, I see 
 
 The majesty of matron grace, 
 And learn how pure, liow fair can be 
 My own wife's face.' " 
 
 A very prudent and sensible gentleman, who liked the solid 
 comforts of life better than its romance ; but if poetry is to 
 descend to celebrate such people, the sooner the art becomes ex- 
 tinct the better. Nothing can be more demoi'alisiug than sucli 
 writing. The last lines are laughable enough. 
 
 Here is something from "Tlie Supper at the Mill," which 
 Horace Smith might have envied : — 
 
 " MOTHEK. And lias your speckled hen brought off her 
 brood ? 
 Feances. Not yet ; but that old duck I told you of. 
 She hatclied eleven out of twelve to-day. 
 Child. And granny they're so yellow.
 
 OE, PILGRIMS TO PABXASSUS. 65 
 
 How Xoali's sons despised the patriarch, 
 805 HoAv Noah's daughters tittered at his ark, 
 
 How Noah's mother-in-law's dread ghost appeared, 
 As Noah's "vvife was kissing Noah's beard.®" 
 Wiiile giants talk broad churcli diA-inity, 
 And Satan proses, proses horriljly ; 
 810 And last, surpassing all apocrypha,-' 
 
 Geoege. And Frances, lass, I brought some cresses in : 
 
 Just wash them, toast the bacon, break some 
 
 egg*, 
 And let's to supper shortly." 
 
 80 See " The Story of Doom ;" Xiloiya speaks : — 
 " Husband, I say, 
 
 . . . My mother's ghost came up last night, 
 Whilst I thy beard held in my hand did kiss. 
 Leaning anear thee, -wakeful througli my love, 
 And M-atcliful of thee till the moon went down." 
 
 «' Miss Ingelow is really too hard upon the devil. She re- 
 presents the "hero of Paradise Lost," as a feeble and sickly old 
 snake, who is bullied by the Giants, and whose conversation is 
 so tedious that even the most hardened sinners would fly his 
 company. 
 
 5
 
 66 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 She boldly slanders poor Metliuselali/" 
 Talks of his lizards, says he drove a team, 
 And calmly makes the good old man blaspheme. 
 My printer tells me, this is not succeeding, 
 8 1 5 On Sundays, though, 'tis very decent reading. 
 
 s- See " The Storj of Doom." Methuselali speaks : 
 
 " Did I lore 
 The lithe strong lizards that I yoked and set 
 To draw my car .... 
 What did the enemy, hut on a day 
 When I behind my talking team went forth, 
 
 What did the enemy but send his slaves — 
 
 Angels, to cast down stones upon their heads, 
 
 And break them ? 
 
 My goodly team, my joy, they all arc dead ; 
 
 And I will keep my wrath for ever more 
 
 Against the enemy that slew them, 
 
 The great wise lizards. 
 
 And if He crieth, 'Eepent, be reconciled,' 
 
 I answer, ' Nay, my lizards;' and, again, 
 
 If He will trouble me in this mine age, 
 
 ' Why hast thou slain my lizards ?' "
 
 OE, PILGBUIS TO PARNASSUS 67 
 
 TsJow Patmore — -but you need no ridicule ! 
 Vanquished I bow to the superior fool ; 
 Out-capped, out-jingled, from his works I quote. 
 And Patmore^^ leads out Patmore in a note. 
 
 *' I quote fi'Oin " The Aiigcl in the House :" — 
 " I woke at three, for I was bid 
 
 To breakfast with the Dean at nine, 
 And thence to churcli, ni}- curtain shd, 
 I found the dawning Sundaj fine." 
 
 " We, who are married, let us own, 
 
 The baclielor's cliief tliought in life 
 Is — or the fool's not wortli a groan — 
 
 To win some woman for liis wife. 
 I kept the custom, I confess, 
 
 I never went to ball or fete. 
 Or show, but in pursuit express 
 
 Of my predestinated mate." 
 
 " But here their converse had an cmX, 
 
 For crossing the cathedral lawn, 
 There camo an ancient college friend. 
 
 Who, introduced to Mrs. Vaughan, 
 Lifted his liat, and Iwwed and smiled, 
 
 And fiUed her handsome face with joy, 
 By patting on the cheek her child, 
 
 With ' Is he yours, this noble boy ?' " 
 
 5-
 
 68 SOESE AND FOOT; 
 
 820 T CALL to AVoolner, Woolner does not hear, 
 Prose caught him up as lone he lingered here 
 
 " We daily dine -witli men wlio stand 
 Among the luaders of the land." 
 
 Then there is some one, who, among other trials :^ 
 " Had ghastly doubts his precious life, 
 Was pledged for aye to the wrong ■wife." 
 
 Mr. Yaughan one evening left his family circle for the society 
 of some autliora, Init did not like his company : — 
 " I said I could not stay to sup, 
 Because my wife was sitting up, 
 And walked homo with a sense tliat I 
 Was no match for that company. 
 Smelling of smoke, which, always kind, 
 Honoria said she did not mind. 
 I sipped lier tea, saw baby scold. 
 And finger at the muslin fold. 
 Thro' which he pushed his nose at last, 
 And clioked and chuckled, feeding fast." 
 Faugh ! 
 
 I couclude with a simile, which I believe refers to Love or 
 Nature, I don't know which : — 
 
 " Tliat's true, cried I, yet as the worm 
 That sickens ere it change ;
 
 OR, PILGBUI8 TO PARNASSUS. 69 
 
 Bore him aloft to paradisal bowers, 
 JFhere little sjnrits make hot love to Jioirers ; 
 And cliiklren's clieeks flush ever as they rove, 
 825 T(i rosier redness at the name of Love. 
 
 To take the dreamer from his heaven were hard, 
 So where I found him, there I'll leave the bard, 
 SereneJij shiniiu/ on a. irorld of Beaut//, 
 Where Love moves ever hand in hand icifh Duty. 
 
 830 T AST low Buchanan^* stumps around the hotcse, 
 Stromj as a stallion, modest as a mouse. 
 
 Or as the pup, tliat uears the term, 
 At which pups have the mange." 
 I suppose "mange" is a poetical term for "distemper." 
 Yet this book has gone through four editions. Who the deuce 
 buys them ? 
 
 ^* Though the specimen in the text may be enough for most 
 readers, I quote a few others. 
 A gu'l called " Liz " speaks : — 
 
 " So I was glad, wlien I began to see, 
 That Joe the costermouger fancied me."
 
 70 HORSE AND FOOT; 
 
 Nature has not another simile, 
 
 Peace, Satire, peace, and let the monster be. 
 
 Then there is a London clerk who has fallen in love with liis 
 fellow lodger, " The Little MiUiner :"— 
 
 " The plain stuff gown, and collar white as snow, 
 A.nd sweet red petticoat that peeps below. 
 
 And thought she is undressing now, and, oh ! 
 My cheeks were hot, my heart was in a glow, 
 Still comforted, although she did not love me, 
 Because her little room was just above me." 
 Then, a rustic bard, wlio, like many other worthy men : — 
 " Ne'er seemed easy in his Sunday coat," 
 says to his wife : — 
 
 " Tlie Lord above is very kind to me, 
 For he has given me this sweet place and you. 
 Adding the bliss of seeing soon in prmt 
 The verse I love so much." 
 But so devoted is Mr. Buchanan to : — 
 
 " The pathos and the power of common life," 
 that he copies even its language : — 
 
 " Old Matthew took the book, put on his specs, 
 And tried to read, but, aye, the specs grew dim." 
 Ajjd sometimes its grammar : — 
 
 " But Him above had sorer tasks in store."
 
 OR, PILGRIMS TO PARNASSUS. 71 
 
 J^AVE on, 'tis well, make hideous earth and sea, 
 835 Cut prose in lengths, and call it poetry ; .   
 
 Still, he occasionally, as Burns says, "has at tlie sublime :" — 
 " The regions where tlie round red sun, 
 Is all alone with God among the snow." 
 " The crucifixion of the good kind Man, 
 Who loved the weans, and was himself a wean." 
 
 Also : — 
 
 " Fatliom deep the ship doth lie, 
 
 Wreathed with ocean-weed, and shell, 
 The cod slips past with round wliite eye." 
 Here we see the love of truth so honourable to the present 
 genei-ation ; the cod-fisli is a toucli beyond Shakespeare. 
 
 Those who wish to be haunted, as I have been the last fort- 
 night, by a most disgusting picture of tlic birth of a still-born 
 infant, may turn to " Loudon Poems," p. 2J9 — though I don't 
 advise them to do so. 
 
 In one of his poems, Mr. Buchanan says : — 
 " I wish to Grod I were lying 
 
 Yonder 'mong mountains blue. 
 SmiHiig in sweet conceptions. 
 
 That were dried from my brow like dew." 
 I suppose he sweats his conceptions. May Providence fulfil 
 the wish ! Meanwliile I really must apologise to Mr. Woolner 
 for the company in which I have placed him ; he, at all events, 
 always writes like a gentleman.
 
 72 IIORSE AND FOOT. 
 
 Adapt, translate, there's nought to suffer neAV, 
 V^ We've felt the worst stupidity can do. 
 
 Invoked, to you, great Midas from the grave, 
 Pleased Avith his suppliants all his discords gave ; 
 840 Despair, like death, a certain calm ensures, 
 And future hrayings can but copy yours. 
 
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