If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line, as a man br of culture rare, br You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and br plant them everywhere. br You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of br your complicated state of mind br (The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a br transcendental kind). br And every one will say, br As you walk your mystic way, br "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for ME, br Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must br be!" br br Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long br since passed away, br And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good QUEEN ANNE was br Culture's palmiest day. br Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new, and declare br it's crude and mean, br And that Art stopped short in the cultivated court of the EMPRESS br JOSEPHINE. br And every one will say, br As you walk your mystic way, br "If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for ME, br Why, what a very cultivated kind of youth this kind of youth must br be!" br br Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your br languid spleen, br An attachment E LA Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too- br French French bean. br Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in br the high aesthetic band, br If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your br mediaeval hand.