They accuse me—Me—the present writer of

The present poem—of—I know not what—

A tendency to under-rate and scoff

At human power and virtue, and all that;  ³⁵ And this they say in language rather rough.

Good God! I wonder what they would be at!

I say no more than hath been said in Danté's

Verse, and by Solomon and by Cervantes;