The supposedly prim and proper Lord Tennyson, speaking savage truth as only the Victorians could:
Authors – essayist, atheist, novelist,
realist, rhymaster, play your part,
Paint the mortal shame of nature
with the living hues of Art.
Rip your brothers’ vices open, strip
your own foul passions bare;
Down with Reticence, down with Reverence –
forward – naked – let them stare.
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