Collected Works (Vol. II)

148 Aim of poet. Indignation of poet. Poet defies his uncle. Whip and spur. Sport- ing offer. The Times Com- petition out- done. Sub-species of genus Chris- tian included in’poet’s strictures. THE SWORD OF SONG - We'll have the ham to logic’s sandwich Of indignation : last bread bland, which After our scorn of God’s lust, terror, hate, Prometheus-fired, we’ll butter, perorate With oiled indifference, laughter’s silver : “ Omne hoc verburr _sifet nil, vir”! Let me help Babu Chander Grish up! As by a posset of Hunyadi® . Clear niind ! Was Soudan of the Mahdi Not cleared by Kitchener? Ah, Tchhup! Such nonsense for sound truth you dish up, Were I magician, no mere cad, Not Samuel’s ghost you’d make me wish up, Nor Saul’s (the mighty son of Kish) up, But Ingersoll’s or Bradlaugh’s, pardie ! By spells and caldron stews that squish up, Or purifying of the Nadi,*® Till Stradivarius or Amati Shriek in my stomach! Sarasate, Such strains ! Such music as once Sadi Made. Persia ring with! I who fish up -No such from soul may yet cry : Vade Retro, Satanas! Tom Bond Bishop! ” You old screw, Pegasus! Gee (Swish!) up! (To any who correctly rhymes *! With Bishop more than seven times I hereby offer as emolum- Ent, a bound copy of this volume.) These strictures must include the har Copleston,* Reverend F. B. Meyer, (The cock of the Dissenter’s midden, he !) And others of the self-same kidney :— How different from Sir Philip Sidney ! But “ cave os, et claude id, ne Vituperasse inventus sim.” In English let me render him ! ’Ware mug, and snap potato-trap ! Or elsely it may haply hap 145 160 165 160 165 170 175 180