I'm the Apostle of mighty Darwinity, Stands for Divinity-sounds much the sameApo-theistico-Pan-Asininity Only can doubt whence the lot of us came. Down on your knees, Superstition and Flunkeydom! Herman C. Merivale. SELECT PASSAGES FROM A COMING POET DISENCHANTMENT My Love has sicklied unto Loath, And foul seems all that fair I fancied The lily's sheen's a leprous growth, The very buttercups are rancid. ABASEMENT With matted head a-dabble in the dust, I lie all loathly in my rags and rust Yet learn that strange delight may lurk in self-disgust. STANZA WRITTEN IN DEPRESSION NEAR DULWICH The lark soars up in the air; The toad sits tight in his hole; And I would I were certain which of the pair TO MY LADY Twine, lanken fingers, lily-lithe, Gleam, slanted eyes, all beryl-green, Pout, blood-red lips that burst a-writhe, Then-kiss me, Lady Grisoline! The Romaunt of Humpty Dumpty THE MONSTER Uprears the monster now his slobberous head, 411 A TRUMPET BLAST Pale Patricians, sunk in self-indulgence, F. Anstey. THE ROMAUNT OF HUMPTY DUMPTY 'Tis midnight, and the moonbeam sleeps Upon the garden sward; My lady in yon turret keeps Her tearful watch and ward. "Beshrew me!" mutters, turning pale, The stalwart seneschal; "What's he, that sitteth, clad in mail Upon our castle wall?" "Arouse thee, friar of orders grey; By cock and pye, the Humpty's face!" That night the corse was found. The king, with hosts of fighting men But all that army, horse and foot, Attempted, quite in vain, Upon the castle wall to put The Humpty up again. Henry S. Leigh. THE WEDDING LADY Clara Vere de Vere! I hardly know what I must say, But I'm to be Queen of the May, mother, I am half-crazed; I don't feel grave, Whole weeks and months, early and late, Oh, the Earl was fair to see, As fair as any man could be; - The wind is howling in turret and tree! We two shall be wed tomorrow morn, But I shan't say "my life is dreary," With the remark, “I'm very weary, But on my husband's arm I'll lean, And roundly waste his plenteous gold, Passing the honeymoon serene In that new world which is the old. For down we'll go and take the boat (Mondays and Thursdays,-Captain Foat), Bound for the Dam of Rotter. Thomas Hood, Ir. "Songs Without Words " IN MEMORIAM TECHNICAM I COUNT it true which sages teach- And so when time has ebbed away, Like childish wreaths too lightly held, Shall moan about the belted bay. Where slant Orion slopes his star, And golden youth and passion stray 413 "Star Spangled Banner" downs me I start all right, but dumbly come So, when I sing the old songs, Robert J. Burdette. AT THE SIGN OF THE COCK FRENCH STYLE, 1898 Being an Ode in further "Contribution to the Song of French History," dedicated, without malice or permission to Mr. George Meredith. I ROOSTER her sign, Rooster her pugnant note, she struts Evocative, amazon spurs aprick at heel; Nid-nod the authentic stump Of the once ensanguined comb vermeil as wine; Hails breach o' the hectic dawn of yon New Year, Of quiverful Fate Evolved spontaneous; hails with tonant trump |