The P.R.B. is in its decadence: -- for Woolner in Australia cooks his chops; And Hunt is yearning for the land of Cheops; D. G. Rossetti shuns the vulgar optic; While William M. Rossetti merely lops His B.s in English disesteemed as Coptic; Calm Stephens in the twilight smokes his pipe But long the dawning of his public day; And he at last, the champion, great Millais Attaining academic opulence Winds up his signature with A.R.A.: -- So rivers merge in the perpetual sea, So luscious fruit must fall when over ripe, And so the consummated P.R.B. |