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( * * * 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. "