Excerpt from The Misadventures of Ures of Marjory
This is no treatise erudite
On Martian astronomy,
No essay learned teaching right
Political economy;
It does not deal, for woe or weal,
With socialist histology,
Nor does it show, nor claim to know
The tenets of psychology.
In short, it is no classic score
Of faultless style and diction,
Parading scientific lore -
All in the guise of fiction.
A modest tale, its meager plot
Is noways allegorical;
It does not lay a claim - God wot! -
To characters historical.
It has no art to search the heart
Of every sect fanatical,
Nor feels the need to frame a creed
From scriptures emblematical.
In fact, the author did not look
Through musty tomes and hoary,
To glean material for his book -
Its just a little story.
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