"‘Sure, we must have some culture, yet safe we must be,
So we’ll back up the fiddlers and actors, says he,
And if the flag of poetry must be unfurled,
Father Senan is there to introduce it to the world,
And Patrick J. Little from Waterford fair,
Sends out gilded culture each night on the air,
And the rich men are backing with money and kind
All culture that hasn’t to do with the mind.
So we drank to ‘Our Guests’ and we emptied our glasses
And praised the safe slopes of our phoney Parnassus.’"
‘A Pathetic Ballad of a Big Dinner’
