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…4 A BALLADE OF FAREWELL Now, ere our last sun sinks in 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.
… term is gone at last. In merriment its days have sped ; Now our brief sojourning is past, And Cambridge days for us are dead. The springtime 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 …
…ily say his gamp is good Before the heavens pour. Let no man say “I go to climb A ridge of danger dread !” But wait till that successful time, And say “I have!” instead! 53
BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS [WE have long held Mr Swinburne and Mr W. S. Gilbert to be the greatest poets of all time. This attempt to combine their metres and styles ought consequently to produce the finest poem of all time. We affirm unhesitatingly that it has !] In the godlike golden glory of the vast irremeable insuperable weather (Where those perfectly beastly bad Rembrandt effects are, over by the sunset that looks so very much as if to-morrow would be wet) They have bridled the sun with a beautiful bit of black and purple clouds, to tie the P…
Ce) BALLADE OF WHIST It is no time for jibe or pun, But to beseech the sod To yawn for you, who did not shun To reckon on the odd. L’ENVOI At Ulm the troops of Mack Surrendered in a bod- Y, in a cul-de-sac, At Bonaparte’s attack ; Be wary lest, strong clod,! You reckon on the odd. 1 The author is indebted to Mr Francis Thompson for this felicitous and, withal, epigrammatic way of writing ‘‘ man.”
BALLADE OF BOWLING The Oxford match is no time for pique. The double break says “ Fee-Fo-Fum, I snick the bails, or go plumb-plumb-plumb Into the sticks.” No batsman stays While the ball spins round like a tee-to-tum ; Not every bowler can break both ways! ' ENVOI Prince, if your batting be mild and meek, Think on the burden of these sweet lays, So your revenge you may nobly wreak, And bowl for the ’Varsity all your days; Not every bowler can break both ways!
A RONDEL A BRIEF half-hour is man’s allotted bliss, A space of sunshine and eternal shower ; A little time for love, as short as is A brief half-hour. Hell hath no witchcraft, heaven hath no power, To change, prolong, delay, or hasten this. It comes and flits, a bee from bud to flower. No strength hath love, no virtue hath love’s kiss, To move one jot fate’s doom, man’s meed, sin’s dower. Between birth’s darkness and the gates of Dis, A brief half-hour! 84
… mountains never pose as seers Of the expected “ mus.” Let glories of a novel climb Before that climb be dumb ; Nor of a record-breaking time Before the achievement hum. Let no man of his doings boast Before those deeds be wrought; No cook proceed his hare to roast Before that hare be caught.
…nce 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.”
BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM TENNIS and cricket have come to stay, Five o'clock is the time to bring Tea and strawberry ice, and play Various dulcet jargoning; . Lazy paddle all day to swing, Lazy pipe to kill ennut’s germ, Lazy, lazy everything :— Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term ! O hooray! merry boys, hooray! Flannels are pleasures that have no sting. Everyone’s white and cool and gay ; Everyone looks as if a wing Might any moment sprout and spring, Turning him into an “alb’ inerm’ Angelum,” like Aladdin’s ring; Sing heigh-ho for the glad May …
…serman of “ Tosca ” wild, I admit that I have certainly made plenty. But I find that in a Tripos (tis the Moral Scientific) I have never time to understand the question ; When the clock strikes I am only just beginning a terrific Answer after the completest of digestion. 74
…y Buskett takes ’is seat, An’ swallers ’is’n ’ard an’ ’ole ; An’ Billy stands upon ’is feet, An’ drinks ’em from a chiny bowl. So by the time a ’our were gone, They eats between ’em forty-one. “But Jimmy’s mouth were gitting dry, An’ so ’e’as to wash ’em down, While Billy looked ’most fit to die, An’ turned from green to dirty-brown ; An’ Sawbones Smith was a’most mazed, An’ Parson Bimmins fairly dazed. “Well, mister, Jimmy Buskett ses, "E ses, ses ’e, at fifty-two, A-chokin’ an’ a-blowin’ es A rileway ingin go to do—
…d 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.
…f 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 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 t…
… has broken the wind of the poor phrase to this effect: “To grow and not to grow; to grow larger and to grow smaller at one and the same time; yea, even to grow by the simple process of not growing.” In these unpretending and innocent.words lies hid (for the eye of the wise to discover) the germ of the most stupendous and far-reaching system of philosophy that has 1 The Qabalah.
…ions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes, Hidden and cover’d by to-day’s, foundation of to-day’s, Ended, deceas’d through time, her voice by Castaly’s fountain Silent the broken-lipp’d Sphynx in Egypt, silent all these century-baffling tombs, Ended for aye the epics of Asia’s, Europe’s helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses, 76
…otin a well, as lewd fellows have impotently pretended: but here, here on the stage of the Grand Guignol. It was just what happens every time, when anyone is fool enough to sacrifice themselves. It was magnificent ; it was war ! Curtain-lifter No. 2 was a still wittier scene, yet the element of improbability! damped, not indeed the en- thusiasm of the mob, but our own more sober and 1 A débutante with her mother finds herself by inadvertence at a ‘‘ gros numéro.” But we betray our correspondent’s reticence. Enough.—ED.