The age demanded an image

Of its accelerated grimace,

Something for the modern stage,

Not, at any rate, an Attic grace

 . . .

The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster,

Made with no loss of time,

A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster

Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.

*new jpegs*, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmo