Alexandra
…m 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
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…m 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
…nd her sweet face fixed on my old favour- ite thumb-worn copy of Sappho, and pore over the deevie pages, hour after hour, bound by the Womans Guild. No ! Sappho has nothing like this in all her scroll of gorgeous rhyme : Cox has, and I am proud to have been to her what I have. Rosie Brooks (Diaper)
…ring ! make me a poet (poetess) concerning thee ! Reign ! Live ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Alexandra ! I being unarmed. (Because Mrs Cox is a woman. Cf. Voltaire : O che sciagura essere sin cogl . . .) Reign ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Live ! Out of the citizen desire goes to thee. We will give grateful mutual thanks to God if I shall . . . (I do not know what futuam can mean. (Look up your Latin Dic., though I admit it is an unusual word in this con- nection, and may seem unjustifiable to those who have not seen my cl... O.C. (MS. illegible. Printer)…
…does not live in a chimney : she has a deevie flat there and the flat has a chimney, two chimneys, in fact, O.C.) myav thister litafir ? Woman ! I replied sternly, whence came it ? My practised eye had already detected the inde- scribable cachet of a treasure trove bene trovato, sin non veri similitudo ! as the immortal Mantuan bardic anarch hath it ah ! dear, dear old Dante ! Dunnom ! Oyussm ! with a vivid blush through her smuts (Euphemia knows that she cannot hope to deceive me. What is my secret ? A simple one : I always believe the…