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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 48
36 BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS And a very good piece of advice it was too (Chorus, please!) The score of life is at Love-all. ENVOI Nothing is like leather. The rhyme is passable—a task by no means small. Though its connection is certainly not obvious—still our cap has lost no feather :— Done it, by Jupiter! We can only say farewell, gentle reader, impressing on you the truth (put in Tennis language because this ballade is all about Tennis) that the score of life is at Love-all.
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
62 TO A HETEROMITA 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 50
BALLADE OF SERIOUS BALLADES And one day you may recollect That I always said Heaven was blue, And you owe, that your life is not wrecked, To a serious ballade or two. ENVOI Princess, it is ill superseding The old and well-tried with the new. Still, for once, lend your ear not unheeding To a serious ballade or two.
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…red, Clasp hands in friendship, ere we die, Nor shame us if a tear be shed :— The time has come tosay Good-bye. ENVOI Prince, whether in Life’s Tripos classed Or ploughed quite irretrievably, Our friendship for all time is cast. The time is come to say Good-bye.
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
… 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 endea…
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
… ballade or two. All folk at odd times may be needing A voice to advise or protect; The heart of a maid may be bleeding; The sky of your life may be flecked With clouds, and you cannot expect The flowers to grow without dew— Please listen with proper respect To a serious ballade or two! The sprinkling of thought I am seeding May gather, take root, and reject The things that would hinder its breeding (Comme il faut, that’s to say, and correct) 37
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…ingtime of our youth is fled, And Summer comes too fierce and dry. With pale cheek and averted head The time is come to say Good-bye. On Life’s rough road we travel fast ; Some to be great, and some to wed. We are small men, the world is vast ; With our desires God is not fed. Some wield gold swords, or steel, or lead ; Some lose good heart, lay weapons by. Each lies in his own self-made bed. The time is come to say Good-bye. May God defend us from the blast, And smooth our path, and keep our head ! Be with us when we stand aghast, And quicken …
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
… (the first law of betting is that you mayn’t bet on a certainty) so perfectly convinced by this time are all wise men that the score of life is at Love-all. So we twain will sing together ;— Spring regilds her coronet; Summer comes and don’t go neither, [This line is neither grammar nor rhyme, I'm afraid ; it’s my mistake entirely, I took a perfectly absurd word to begin with, and after getting as far as this it would be a pity to turn back; the rhymes’ll get worse for certain, so don’t be surprised if they do, but I haven’t lost hope of stick…
1904 · PDF PAGE 104
…HEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL judicious pleasure. You ask therefore in vain for detail. “La Mineure” (No. 3) was, on the other hand, even more life-like than No. 1. A witness retained by justice to identify a criminal discovers him by chance in the person of the President of the Court himself. She is hauled to the deepest dungeons of Saint Lazare, and everything thus ends happily. For one moment the nerves of the spectator are braced up to meet the sword of Damocles—and then, with a single blow, the Juge d’Instruction subtly and delicately strikes in…