Classic Poem

Where lags the " artist" of official note
For whom the students cast the careless vote?
And is it true that Anderson has cause
To doubt a Salon jury's cheap applause?
His ineffectual paint, of blue and green,
That " to be rated needs but to be seen,"
Proves to what pass a worker may arrive
When halting hand essays with paint to strive;
Cold colour in decrepit drawing pent,
Official " fame" and feeble pigment blent.