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ALEXANDRA 
 
 
We xylo Xavier, we X-ray Xerxes, 
 
This is a vision like a drunken Turk sees : 
 
 
We yammer of Yvonne, we yell Yolande, 
 
This is weak tea to Alexandra’s brandy : 
 
 
We zeal for Zelma, zig-zag after Zaza, 
 
No ! happiness is never à la casa : 
 
19.  The loved disciple is perhaps St John.  But 
Patmos is a rocky, not a wooded, island.  Obscure. 
20.  Not a painted miniature, of course.  More 
probably a black and white reproduction, or possi-
bly a coloured one, of a sketch or photo-
graph.  Only the gentlemen and noblemen about 
the court would be in a position to order a painting 
on ivory by an artist such as Sargent or Herkomer 
from such sketch or photograph.  
21.  The nautical reference is, on the authority of 
Lloyd’s journal, obscure. 
22.  Cancelled passage, vv. XXXI, XXXII. 
 
XXXI 
Who turn ?  Why, Arthur, Bertie, Charles, Dick, Edward, 
Frank, George, Hal, Ike, John, Kenneth, Leonard, Mike, 
Nat, Oliver, Pete, Quintus, wend them bedward 
Alone, alike. 
 
XXXII 
So Roger, Sam, Tom, Unus, Victor, Willie, 
Xenocrates, Yeo, Zeno, frown on fun, 
Disdain, delight, cry :  “ Though you think us silly, 
A.R. or none ! ” 
 
The line “ Alone, alike ” resembled too nearly “ Aloft, 
alone ”, in the famous Diamond Jubilee Ode.  Hence 
the whole passage had to go.