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HE tea-rose tea-gown, etc. Supplants the mousseline of Cos, The pianola "replaces" Sappho's barbitos.

Christ follows Dionysus, Phallic and ambrosial Made way for macerations; Caliban casts out Ariel.

All things are a flowing, Sage Heracleitus says; But a tawdry cheapness Shall reign throughout our days.

Even the Christian beauty Defects after Samothrace; "We see τὸ καλόν Decreed in the market place.

Faun's flesh is not to us, Nor the saint's vision. We have the press for wafer; Franchise for circumcision.

All men, in law, are equals. Free of Peísistratus, We choose a knave or an eunuch To rule over us.

O bright Apollo, τίν' άνδρα, τίν' ἥρωα, τίνα θεὸν, What god, man, or hero Shall I place a tin wreath upon!