to level remarks to the capacity of children

They're crazy, they're ding-a-ling! They're mad!

The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.

Don't count me out; I'm on your side.