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THE MOUNTAINEER’S FATHER WILLIAM 55 “In the days of my youth (Young men w// be young men), I was peaked on my skill at Peak-et! And the muscular strength (which I didn’t use then) Comes in for a subsequent day!” “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “Yet your tongue is as trusty as ever; You consistently lie in a manner that I Consider infernally clever!” “T have answered three questions, and that is enough, Come on, if you’re coming at all! Pi hold you—this Buckingham’s capital stuff— I'll hold—but I’m hanged if I’ll haul!”
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
THE MOUNTAINEER’S FATHER WILLIAM. “YOU are old, Father William,” the young man said, “ And your waistcoat is awfully tight, And yet you persistently plough up Sty Head, Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In the days of my youth,” Father William replied, “T fostered each Sybarite taste ; But now I strive hard my tum-tum to retard, By wasting to limit my waist!” “ You are old, Father William,” the young man cried, “ Relinquish a passion so dread ! Lay ice axe and rope and dementia aside !— Remember the years o’er your head!” “In the days o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…ten the venom we knew ; Nor sting as those articles stang When Keats wrote a poem or two Before the good zon of Lang. L’ENVOI There is a young lady, it’s true, Who finds that their tongues have a tang But—the sorrows of Satan were few Before the good zon of Lang.
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
TO A HETEROMITA ROSTRATA SWEET microscopic beauty ; born one day In not imperishable head of cod! Young organism Sporting flagella in a cheerful way, But neither cilium nor pseudopod ; Produced by schism ! Thou dost not browse on pastures bright and green, Or feed on palm trees in sublime oases In lands Semitic. Not holophytic is thy food I ween, Nor holozoic, as in other races, But saprophytic. When bliss conjugal is thine object praiseworthy A swimming form approaches to an anchored With zeal ecstatic : Affection of a healthy length of days w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
58 TRAVERSE OF THE AIGUILLES ROUGES (10) Superior persons in collars and cuffs Said we ought to be grateful to Heaven. “Tf young fools will scale inaccessible bluffs They’re killed—it’s a hundred to seven.” (11) They said, “ Without guides, which the Commune provides No party for big hills should go.” They said of our pluck “ ’twas the devil’s own luck,” And they said of our pace—“ it was slow.” (12) They spoke but we heard not—We slept like the dead, Having feasted on Mauler and Bouvier; And the wind echoed Cecil’s olfactory vessels That snore…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
“BITTE, HERR, BEZAHLEN !” ‘* There was a young fellow at Sulden Possessed of a number of gulden. He spent and expended Until 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 sw…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
… has chosen our retreat. The beeches wave, the poplar dips ; I know the breeze is here at last ; I see the dainty-masted ships Leap like young fawns beneath the blast : The water beats the shingle fast As if its heart with passion beat, And the sweet hour of sleep is past Where Love has chosen our retreat. The moon is up; the star-sky dawns ; My lover turns a ruby lip: There gather nymphs, and eager fauns To watch us play ; the shadows slip, And sylph and fountain-fairy dip Between the leaves, to scent the sweet Perfume of kisses, when we clip,…
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…ut 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 could get on without us! (9) We sprawled in the sun when the banquet was done (We had feasted on Bouvier 1 and Mauler’”), You said of my knickers—they are not a vicar’s ; It isn’t a hole, it’s a howler ! 1 His champagne. 2 His champagne.