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…ntil they were ended And then he departed from Sulden ! ” GORTHE. IF e’er to Austrian or Swiss (My plural’s faulty) Thalen You go, these words you cannot miss, “QO, bitte, Herr, bezahlen !” By night the “gemsen ” you may hunt, (The fleas, in common parlan- Ce), and for your sport the bill confront- Eth, “Bitte, Herr, bezahlen! ” And if you call the waitress neat “ Mein liebchen—little darlin’ !” Her pretty mouth will murmur sweet, “O bitte, Herr, bezahlen !” And when your guide, divinely drunk, As helpless as a carline. Deserts the party in a f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 94
…ck 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 69
…that’s a hot ’un.” (6) We spoke of the mountains, the weather, the rope, In a tongue that was doubtfully British ; We summed up in three words Philosophy’s scope ; Of women we said—“ they are skittish.” (7) We gained the low snows, and each rubbed his cold nose As we lunched upon Cotton and Maggi ; We observed, “we are neat from our felts to our feet,” But remarked of our chins—“ they are shaggy.” (8) Arolla appears. There were no hearty cheers And no one was anxious about us: “If horrid young fools will break Alpine Club rules ”— In fact, they…
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
… 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 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 75
…scribe without an actual visit to the stern waters of the Thames at Hammersmith or at Mortlake). In the noblest grammar, with hardly any words really misspelt at all, I could describe how neither coxswain felt at all nervous a quarter of an hour before the race ; how both the crews felt sure that they would score the race, how Oxford drew away at Chiswick Eyot amid a most extraordinary spate of pocket-handkerchiefs waved wildly ; how Cambridge crept up with wave-dividing prow with even louder cheers; my sex forbids I should describe how seven’s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…ls, religion, or more important still, politics, say as with one voice (of course we do not insinuate any charge of plagiarism) in other words, substantially this, that is to say of course it must be put mystic- ally, because if a truth is important, it should be the duty of every thinking man to conceal it from the masses, this, I say, that the score of life (what- ever the score at Tennis may be, that doesn’t matter) is at Love-all. O Gilbert gyrates like a grouse in the green of the horrible heather, (Mr Swinburne cannot abide my straightfor…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…nd 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.
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL 93 Horror holds one from the outset: but when from words we go to deeds, the formulation of the Logos in the plastic, alas! the element of music-hall supervenes— O Catulle Mendés! didst thou say, forced like Galileo to thy knees by an iniquitous tribunal; Personne ne croit aces cadavres!”? Yet wedoso. The director's murder is done magnificently; better than Macbeth, better than the Cenci ; better than the Mother’s Tragedy. No! this praise is too fulsome, too indiscriminate; but any way, better than the other two. He …