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Eugene Field - ConsistencyEugene Field - Consistency
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Should painter attach to a fair human head   The thick, turgid neck of a stallion, Or depict a spruce lass with the tail of a bass,   I am sure you would guy the rapscallion. Believe me, dear Pisos, that just such a freak   Is the crude and preposterous poem Which merely abounds in a torrent of sounds,   With no depth of reason below `em. `T is all very well to give license to art,--   The wisdom of license defend I; But the line should be drawn at the fripperish spawn   Of a mere _cacoethes scribendi_. It is too much the fashion to strain at effects,--   Yes, that`s what`s the matter with Hannah! Our popular taste, by the tyros debased,   Paints each barnyard a grove of Diana! Should a patron require you to paint a marine,   Would you work in some trees with their barks on? When his strict orders are for a Japanese jar,   Would you give him a pitcher like Clarkson? Now, this is my moral: Compose what you may,   And Fame will be ever far distant Unless you combine with a simple design   A treatment in toto consistent.
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