A very good Cunningham, yes, but I think there's an even better one in dimeters.
FOR MY CONTEMPORARIES
How Time reverses
The proud in heart!
I now makes verses
Who aimed at art.
But I sleep well.
Ambitious boys
Whose big lines swell
With spiritual noise,
Despise me not,
And be not queasy
To praise somewhat:
Verse is not easy.
But rage who will.
Time that procured me
Good sense and skill
Of madness cured me.
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