J.K.S.

“ Is given to her in charge,
⁠And owns her as a head.
But every here and there—
⁠Deny it if you can
She breeds a vacant stare
⁠Unworthy of a man:
A look of dull surprise;
⁠A nerveless idle hand:
An eye which never tries
⁠To threaten or command:
In short, a kind of man,
⁠If man indeed he be,
As worthy of our ban
⁠As any that we see:
Unspeakably obtuse,
⁠Abominably vain,
Of very little use,
⁠And execrably plain.
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”