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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 43
… dear and noble! one-eyed tout! Whom dost thou cadge for? For I view With envy thy sweet liberty. Thy tie’s invariably new, Although thy face we never see _Even on Sunday changed! Ah me! That face, at which the lilies pout, That face extraordinararee, Thou dear and noble one-eyed tout. Fragrant as dawn and light as dew Thy dainty presence! Or a tree Some poets would compare thee to: Some poets to a common flea. 1 Mr Robert Browning, not the author, is responsible for this iniquitous conjunction of epithets. Cc 3
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
BAL MASQUE | YES, rose domino, eyes so grey, ‘ Did you believe that I could not guess Whose pretty face beneath it lay ? Yes! Who but yourself could adorn that dress, Though it be dainty—(are you a fay, Or a pink-and-white Dresden Shepherdess ? ) Dominoes must not say love nay. Surely my skill can deserve no less Than—so you smile—I am sure I may— Yes? 87
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
…your pea-pod— I trump you, when you have begun To reckon on the odd. With what a mighty smack Your King of Trumps is won! Your partner’s face grows very black ; He doesn’t think it fun. A Yankee would have used a gun, A schoolmaster a rod— A ten ace may be led of none Who reckon on the odd. And now, amid the wrack Of your position, Their old established suit comes back, With an unfettered run ;
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
BALLADE OF TRIPOS FEVER O smMuUG! in your desolate room, Whatever’s the matter with you? Your face is a picture of gloom, Your pulse is a hundred and two, Your eyelids are glued as with glue, A towel is tied to your head, You might be a man with the Flu! “The Trip! and I wish I were dead!” O blood! Mighty being ve whom Our novelists say what is true! You swear, and you fuss, and you fume, And the saddest of books—if the view That I catch of your dainty canoe Be accurate—heavy as lead, Are piled as you yawn and say “ Phew! The Trip! and I wish I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
… 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 clap,! Hi, Mister, your wheel’s goin’ round !” Thus good is the converse of ill (Such truths are the moralist’s pap), And turbot makes excellent brill ; Verse goes with a tang and a snap. 1 The phrase is adverbial.
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
64 PRINCIPALLY REMIGIAL steamer the woman he has wronged by some bad scheme ; her face makes him faint and fall into the water. But Oxford getting fortunately shorter they could not quite recover the lost yard, and Cambridge consequently wins a hard-fought contest by two inches and a half; at which the people who had backed them laugh, and Bow gets his commission in the guards. Our authoress, who reels off yards and yards of fine romance, is far too serious to make the pun to her so obvious about his being still a Beau, undér the impression tha…