Excerpt from A Modern Ideal: A Dramatic Poem

We are accustomed to hear it complained that the visage of Romance has become so wrinkled by time, her freedom of limb so fettered by knowledge and the elaborate machinery of our civilization (suggesting less the divine maid than a disorderiy dowager between two policemen), that we must no longer expect to find themes for poetry in our midst. The regret is perhaps as old as the days of our anthropoid ancestors, the unimaginative among whom we may picture bewailing the innovation of millinery into the realms of tattoo as being similarly indicative of the prosaic tendency of development.

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