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HOW TO DO A RECHAUFFE WHEN from a maid her lover goes, Her little heart is full to burstin’. She goes and dons at once the clothes Her fickle lover kissed her first in. She argues “if I reconstruct That situation accurately, Beneath his arm I’1l soon be tucked, If any virtue lie in Whately.” With Huxley it appears to her, Mutatis, that’s to say, mutandts, The situation will recur, Unhelped by artibus nefandis. She will not recognise the fact, That probably a change would snare ’em! A person of superior tact, Would purchase bloomers, ay, and wea…
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…ROMITA ROSTRATA Your spores burst forth. O parents fond and dutiful, What lot in life could be much more felicitous Or any brighter? You little being chlorophylly beautiful, Who in high cod’s head dost descend to visit us, Heteromita !
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
… Say, how long? Say, to whom shall the lips belong This year, next year, never again ? Say, whose lips will have done me wrong? Tell me, little shy bird, if pain Dwell in thy heart at an idle song ; Now we are one; we shall soon be twain ! Say, how long? 79
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A RONDEL A BRIEF half-hour is man’s allotted bliss, A space of sunshine and eternal shower ; A little time for love, as short as is A brief half-hour. Hell hath no witchcraft, heaven hath no power, To change, prolong, delay, or hasten this. It comes and flits, a bee from bud to flower. No strength hath love, no virtue hath love’s kiss, To move one jot fate’s doom, man’s meed, sin’s dower. Between birth’s darkness and the gates of Dis, A brief half-hour! 84
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…hen Mallarmé, And other people Of singular and perhaps Unique talent (Now joined by André de Lordes) Is a splendid success At the quaint little theatre Of Montmartre. Speed !—I mean Poe! 1 A review on ‘‘ the Soothing System ” in its original French dress. 89
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…snipe with shot, Find dons with pretty faces, “ New” dramas with a plot, Find money on a Scot, Find beauty in a bloomer— We'll read your little lot And label it as humour. You think to break our braces With hidden jokes and hot ; Kick over manners’ traces, Reins tangle in the knot Of Boredom—Never trot Your spavined mare, but groom her! You snigger at a sot, And label him as humour. Some pseudo-bloods at races, Some scholar’s polyglot, Some torpid Don’s grimaces, Some spouting Hottentot ; 29
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…mmon parlan- Ce), and for your sport the bill confront- Eth, “Bitte, Herr, bezahlen! ” And if you call the waitress neat “ Mein liebchen—little darlin’ !” Her pretty mouth will murmur sweet, “O bitte, Herr, bezahlen !” And when your guide, divinely drunk, As helpless as a carline. Deserts the party in a funk, Yet “ Bitte, Herr, bezahlen !” 50
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…es rapidly rust) Will speak in a manner that’s rough: “You poets deserve to be trussed ! Lord, keep us from reading the stuff!” _ My own little scheme of supplying With fuel the realms of the cussed Is to stoke all the fires with the flying MSS blown that way by a gust A
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…sleep is laid Where Love has chosen our retreat. They wake when drops the spring sun down Beyond the poplar yonder set, Beyond the quiet little town, Beyond the distant coronet 41
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BALLADE OF BICYCLING LITTLE use to weep over a spill, When you chance to collide with a chap In a cart at the foot of a hill, Or a clergyman out in a trap ; It is better to meet a mishap With philosophy noble and sound, And steer for Fortunia’s lap : “ Hi, Mister, your wheel’s goin’ round !” Though Jack may be followed by Jill, On the slope, a man’s claret to tap ; There’s a way that is made by a will, Like a river turned on from a tap. You may cover the whole of the map, Your face with the sunlight is browned, You smile when boys shout, with a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…at covers all the rudiments of knowledge. I should not have been expected in that station to produce a thought, Or do anything but drawa little salary; And I would one day eventually most graciously let loose a thought On some subject such as Maeterlinck or Malory. But good-bye to thoughts of greatness amid men of Major Schol. degree! It’s the first step that regards me with defiance; They’ll allow me, p’raps, the General, or possibly the Poll Degree, , For my papers in the Trip. of Moral Science. So I, who might have risen to the fame of such …
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…lock worked into the semblance of a net. Mr Swinburne is a person who can’t say a thing straight out, you know. What we're driving at (a little obscurely, you’ll say) but certainly driving, driving furiously like Ahab or one of those 33
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34 BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS ridiculous characters of which we hear so much and see so little, is to point out the analogy of lawn-tennis and life in a light and humorous way which even on the most blasé of Freshmen will be unlikely to pall. I will quote you the Walt that was Whitman, the Wilde that was Oscar, the Vincent O’Sullivan, paean | and chant of the classical world, songs from America due to the lyre of the Harte that was Bret. ~ And all these estimable personages, very useful in their way, but to be strenuously opposed if they should end…
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…resting studies of the system of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume. Laure, the first of three curtain (and hair) raisers, is a charming little drama. An ingénue comes by accident into possession of a letter compromis- ing her mother. Discovered by her father, she saves her mother by accusing herself. The mother, secure once more, bullies and ill-treats the heroic child, so that the curtain falls on her despairing shriek of “ Misérable!” Here then is truth! Notin a well, as lewd fellows have impotently pretended: but here, here on the stage of …