An Elegy on the Death of a Promising Professorial Career

With apologies to E. J. Thribb, 17 1/2 lines.

So. Farewell then, Ruth Padel.

You were

Darwin's great-great-grandaughter

And also a poet

Like me.

But

You tried to cheat

your way in

to Oxford University

And now

you have had to resign after one week.

Is this

Poetic Justice?

Perhaps it is.