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Show I ODE TO LE GALLIENNE. ' I If you're tired of reading fiction And have telt the gruesome friction Generated by effusions from a mal-directed pan; You can find relief intense And a soothing recompence 1 Read the Literary Letters of one Richard Gal- ' lienne. J He's devoid of stakes or boundary He's a literary foundry i! His output's more and juicier than a Mississippi ? still; i From a sonnet-lett historian 1 To a ballad pre-Victorian, There's no order in the letter mart that Richard ( cannot fill. I i Still with visage grim and stoic , At his foundiy calm, heroic, j Richard grinds as never grinder ever ground be- !' fore, we wist; But mayhap by such taxation I Or some lack of lubrication 1 Richard's grind of late has shown a superfluity of grist. t O, wlelder of the fountain pen, Proud prolific Gallienne, ( Why not make a Quest tor Labor of a less intre- , pid brew; Cool this superhuman zest Take a calm reposeful rest, And while you're convalescing we will try to take one too. ANGUS NICHOLSON. |