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A L E X A N D R A A BIRTHDAY ODE suggested by ABBEYS masterpiece in the Academy of 1904 BEING THE WATKIN TOWER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (vice Kubla Khan and Hyperion retired hurt) THE UNFINISHED OR MUTILATED (OR BOTH) MANUSCRIPT ofMrALFRED AUSTIN,MrOWEN SEAMAN,orMrA.N. OTHER rescued from the flames AND copied fair, transcribed, edited, annotated, arranged, printed, published BY OPHELIA COX (NÉE MCHUNT) AND DIAPER OF THE Womans Monthly SHANGHAI 1905 Five Dollars
1909 · PDF PAGE 4
ALEXANDRA INTRODUCTORY PINDARIC ODE BY O.C. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! Lege ! non ero Cassandra. Ego scribam quæ me decet : Xenophon non nimis fecit. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! Non ero mala Cassandra. De te poetam, fac, ver, me ! Regne ! Vive ! Ama ! Germe ! Alexandra ! me inerme ! Regne ! Ama ! Germe ! Vive ! Ex ad te it cupido cive. Gratiam Deo demus mutuam In cubili si te futuam. Non ero mala Cassandra, Alexandra ! Alexandra !1 Mrs Coxs Latinity is sometimes not quite up to Fleet Street mark : and these lines are decidedly not regular hexameters …
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…Zelma, zig-zag after Zaza, No ! happiness is never à la casa : 19. The loved disciple is perhaps St John. But Patmos is a rocky, not a wooded, island. Obscure. 20. Not a painted miniature, of course. More probably a black and white reproduction, or possi- bly a coloured one, of a sketch or photo- graph. Only the gentlemen and noblemen about the court would be in a position to order a painting on ivory by an artist such as Sargent or Herkomer from such sketch or photograph. 21. The nautical reference is, on the authority of Lloyds journal, obsc…