On Art and Artists(十二)

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     When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio,
     I think of the crippled Harry and slobbering Joe;
     And then I question thus: Are artists' rules
     To be drawn from the works of two manifest fools?
     Then God defend us from the Arts I say!
     Send battle, murder, sudden death, O pray!
     Rather than be such a blind human