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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.
BALLADE OF SERIOUS BALLADES LIGHT verses are these you’ve been reading— Slim-waisted and elegant-necked, As a maiden on water-cress feeding If a simile splendidly decked Appeals to your excellent sect) But humour must pall—it’s too true. I think you ought not to object To a serious 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 seri…
…de of the Backs Ballade of Cambridge Papers Ballade of the New Humour Ballade of the One-Eyed Tout . Ballade of Lawn Tennis . Ballade of Serious Ballades Ballade of Old Admirals A Refrain of a Far Country A Ballade of Farewell vii PAGE 1X
…d 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 that we all pronounce the worthy who occupies the foremost thwart as if he were archer’s joy or a division whiffy in London East. The space at my disposal is getting, alas! too small, and pretty Rosalys (the girl I saw the race with) must be slurred over. Conclude. A thousand kind words and a word over to those who won…
…btly and delicately strikes in, and we can breathe again. The Docteur Goudron was now to appear, and it was a spectacle saddening to the serious philosopher to observe everybody pretending, often most elaborately, that they had read Poe’s story on which the play is based. Alas! that we should have been among them! Yet so it was. Many years have elapsed since our feet trod civilized MacAdam ; many years since we spent hour after happy hour poring over our Poes. Surprising? Ay, but true. Yet some dimmest recollection of Dr Tarr and Professor Feat…