Page:Underwoods, Stevenson, 1887.djvu/87

 XXX

A PORTRAIT

a kind of farthing dip,

Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;

A blue-behinded ape, I skip

Upon the trees of Paradise.

At mankind's feast, I take my place

In solemn, sanctimonious state,

And have the air of saying grace

While I defile the dinner plate.

I am "the smiler with the knife,"

The battener upon garbage, I—