When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio

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WHEN I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio,

I think of the crippled Harry and slobbering Joe;

And then I question thus: Are artists’ rules

To be drawn from the works of two manifest fools?

Then God defend us from the Arts I say!

Send battle, murder, sudden death, O pray!

Rather than be such a blind human fool

I’d be an ass, a hog, a worm, a chair, a stool!