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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 89
… and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv’d utterly like an exhalation ; Pass’d ! pass’d! for us, forever pass’d, that once so mighty world, now void inanimate, phantom world Embroider’d, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths, Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames Pass’d to its charnel vault, coffin’d with crown and armor on, Blazon’d with Shakspere’s purple page, And dirged by Tennyson’s sweet sad rhyme. I say I see, my friends if you do not, the illustrious emigré (having it is…
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…ing on the strand, Nor in the pools a Tuscan maid ; Nor lurks a fawn within the shade ; Nor springs the moss to foxes’ feet; For all the world in sleep is laid Where Love has chosen our retreat. They wake when drops the spring sun down Beyond the poplar yonder set, Beyond the quiet little town, Beyond the distant coronet 41
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…ed 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 Faith when Hope has bled. 43
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…her William,” the young man said, “ And your legs are as flabby as suet, Yet you gloat in a week on a second-rate peak, Pray, how in the world do you do it?” 54
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…ses—to-day— An’ hentrance tuppence hevery ’ead. The wummen-folk may henter free, An’ likewise babbies under three. “* A challenge to the world do I, Jim Buskett, with the wooden legs, Give forth to all men and sundry To win the championship fur heggs ; An’ this a stake 0’ twenty pound To any heater ’ere around.’ “Now, mister, we ’ad never thought To ’ave a heater sich as’e, An’ yet opined as summun ought To take the challenge, fair an’ free ; Fur Jim ’e seemed to us to boast, The which our villidge hates the most. “Well, arter ’arf-a-’our ’ad g…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…o 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 endeavour to put their oar into morals, 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 b…
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL g1 ever been presented to the astounded consciousness of mortal men. Quickly overrunning the civilized world, it has penetrated (auspice Teucro) into the very remotest steppes of Central Asia, the wildest savannahs of the American prairie, where dog and oyster burble in plethoric harmony among the verdant shoots of cactus and coyote, where the giant Appomattox rolls in sulky majesty to the red bays of the Pacific. The Society formed to exploit this unheard- of invention is, naturally, of a most secret nature: perhaps…