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… problem of Phonetic Spelling from an entirely original standpoint. The result is the vin- dication of my noble theories on this matter. THOUGH through and hiccough have nough rhyme, enough, Yough ought tough grant, remain tough make one cough. Here goughs — Ough! sweet tough rough oughoughn the lough Though, trough, I might through ough, if it were rough, My sougher. Hough I loughve the oughx sough tough That goughs, loughed loughing, where the ripples sough With the blough blough-bloughsed ploughman tough the trough, Though the blough bloughs…
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
A SONNET OF SPRING FASHIONS My Chloe has asked for a sonnet To hymn her ccerulean hat. Of course I mayn’t call it a bonnet (Though the rhyme would come awfully pat). It has cherries and strawberries on it, It’s trimmed with the tail of a rat. I think that this verse, if she con it, Is likely to fall very flat. Better luck, as I hope, with the sestet. I cannot write sonnets, my Chloe, They turn out so terribly doughy ! I only write this, as you pressed it. Though now, you'll admit, it looks showy, In writing I heartily blest it! 80
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
…ek Problems in Algebra—trebly glum, Work at them, groan at them, week by week, Grind like a matchmaker down ir a slum ; Slave all night, though no answer come, Smug all day, though the summer blaze, . All may do that till the brain succumb :— Not every bowler can break both ways! Vain be the struggle of party clique! } The ground is iron, the wicket is crumb, 1 In 1896-99, the author was excluded from the Cambridge Eleven, owing to the machinations of his relentless and Machiavellian persecutors. Owing to this disgraceful jobbery, the Oxford te…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
… 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 46
… a grouse in the green of the horrible heather, (Mr Swinburne cannot abide my straightforward English (that’s one to me) way of talking, though his morality is imported and perfectly well known to be as black as jet) But he’s right in the main, though he does so lovingly bleat and so blether,
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…s 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.
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… explain to me— “ That’s Freedom’s Eagle striking!” A poet cannot sing When lofty liberty Conceals beneath her wing Such lots of misery. Though labourers drink tea And all the girls are biking, I’m not so sure that we See Freedom’s Eagle striking! Philosophers may bring Their logic—I may be A fool or anything An out-of-date, a he 13
1904 · PDF PAGE 106
…t hardened roué, or the most expert member of the Vigilance Society. ‘ This, in a French theatre, is as rare as it is delightful ; 4 and though it is conditioned, like all phenomena, by space, time, and causality, it is none the less refreshing.? VLADIMIR SVAREFF, P.L.A.L. 1 The MS. is almost illegible ; the word might be ‘‘ disappointing.” 2 Ditto. ditto. ditto. ‘‘ refrigerating.”
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
…e stuff ! When Ajax, the lightning defying, Was rude, his impertinent bust Was shattered. The Editor, trying To write (as an Editor must Though his faculties rapidly rust) Will speak in a manner that’s rough: “You poets deserve to be trussed ! Lord, keep us from reading the stuff!” _ My own little scheme of supplying With fuel the realms of the cussed Is to stoke all the fires with the flying MSS blown that way by a gust A
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
…l they quenched the Philistian crew Before the good zon of Lang. Here’s an article mystic and dark In a manner as fluent as glue, Which (though lovers meet deep in a park, The wearisome tome of it through)
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… It is better to meet a mishap With philosophy noble and sound, And steer for Fortunia’s lap : “ Hi, Mister, your wheel’s goin’ round !” Though Jack may be followed by Jill, On the slope, a 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 ; Ve…
1904 · PDF PAGE 94
…om, Rossetti or Aubrey or Jones, Some buxom, some frail as the dew, some Mere bags full of bones. You shift and bedeck and bedrape them (Though some are both nude and antique) :— Your epigrams, who shall escape them? Your metaphors often oblique ? With words you have beaten and blessed us, You caused us to shudder and smart, O subtle, spontaneous Festus, Apostle of Art! 1 This phrase is, and must remain obscure, as I can’t remember what, if anything, I meant by it. 82
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…fender with ’is ’ead. Ses Sawhones, ‘’E’s a lucky chap, An’ wean't be ’urt by ¢hat mis’ap.’ “« They’ve appleplectic fits,’ ’e ses, ‘An’, though their lives I’m sure to save, Yet each ’ll carry, Ill confess, A ruin’ stummick to ’is grave.’ An’ ’e were right as soon as not: A ruin’ stummick ’tis they’ve got.
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…LD FESTUS KELLY 83 By the ravenous teeth that have bitten Through the salad of lobster and cheese; By the silliest lines I have written (Though none are as silly as these) ; By remarks I have made that were rude-io! By the epigrams cruel and tart, We beseech thee respond from thy studio, Apostle of Art! On canvas by paints never covered, Nor wet with the washing of turps ; On blocks where thy pen never hovered, Nor pencil that crumbles and chirps. (My fingers with ink are so inky, I want to give vent to a phrase, That would shock even Wee Willi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…w the race with) must be slurred over. Conclude. A thousand kind words and a word over to those who won and those who gamely stuck to it though they were beaten. (Next time better luck to it !)? 1 As a direct result of these remarks the boat-race was indeed won by us the very next year but three or four.
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS 35 (If I do bore him, I’m not in a disgusting music hall set!) Though he chatter and chortle and chuckle, at last to the point he will get, Which as I have previously observed is to make it perfectly plain to the initiated, whether by force of language or mere loudness of call, That this truth is a type of true triumph beyond the bad odds of a bet, In fact I won’t take your money (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 …