SPEED, Ruthless Rhymes; throughout the land
Disperse yourselves with patient zeal!
Go, perch upon the Critic's hand,
Just after he has had a meal.
But should he still unkindly be,
Unperch and hasten back to me.
And, wheresoever you may roam,
Remember the secluded shelf
( Where, sitting in his Heartless Home,
The author chortles to himself ),
There, in the distant by-and-bye,
You still may flutter back — to die.