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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
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