Guff about larks and snails

I'm re-reading "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves". It's interesting that there are no bad lines. I'm watching, but haven't found one, and it reminds me of my short whack at graduate school at the University of Houston. Specifically, a class on Milton taught with so much authority you almost got the idea the poet might have been an old student of the professor's. These sessions were my first introduction to theology, demonology, free verse, and the rest of all that, and I remember one session where the prof, reciting a few lines from Paradise Lost to illustrate a point, stopped suddenly and said, "that's one of the two bad lines in the poem. The other of course is in book 3 - " and he recited the other bad line and shook his head. "Too bad he didn't fix those". So close! But perfection was reserved for P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse may have written the same book over and over, but he wrote that book perfectly every time. And the lines themselves are never the same. I don't know how many times Bertie misremembers "The lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn", but he does it differently every time. And, I think, each time better than Browning ever managed.