<h2><SPAN name="HE_MEDITATES_ON_THE_CRITIC" id="HE_MEDITATES_ON_THE_CRITIC"></SPAN>He Meditates on the Critic</h2>
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<span class="ig">“Criticism is a tonic,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Very healthy in effect,”<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Wrote he, and my verse Byronic<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Did most <i>ruthlessly</i> reject.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">He’s a villain—deep—politic—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Bitter things these tonics, all,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Manufactured by the critic<br/></span>
<span class="i2">From his mighty store of gall.<br/></span></div>
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