If You're Anxious For To Shine

In The High Aesthetic Line

As A Man Of Culture Rare,

You Must Get Up All The Germs

Of The Transcendental Terms

And Plant Them Ev'rywhere.

You Must Lie Upon The Daisies

And Discourse In Novel Phrases

Of Your Complicated State Of Mind;

The Meaning Doesn't Matter



If It's Only Idle Chatter

Of A Transcendental Kind.

And Ev'ryone Will Say,

As You Walk Your Mystic Way,

"If This Young Man Expresses Himself

In Terms Too Deep For Me,

Why, What A Very Singularly Deep Young Man

This Deep Young Man Must Be!"