| Show THE MERRY MUSE Dour Out London When I was broke London In the fall of 89 8 I chanced t spy in Oxford street this tantaliz ing sign thl tantlz A Splendid Horace Cheap for Cashof course I had to look Caf cour Upon book the vaunted bargain and t was a noble A finer one Pre never seen nor can I hopo to seeThe t see-The first edition richly bound and clean as clean con be c And just t thlnkt for three pound ten I might mgh have had that Pino When I was broko in London in the fall of 8 Down at NoseoVs in the Strand I found one fateful day A portrait that I pined for a only maniac mayA may-A print of Mme Vestrla she nourished yean Was Bar tolozzia daughter and a thoroughbred you knowl A clean and handsome print it n and cheap at thirty bob Thats what I told the salesman n I choked a rising sob But I httntr around Nosedas a it were n holy snrino When I was broke in London in the fall of 8 i At Davoye i Great Rtussel street were autographs auto-graphs galore ant I And Mr cious Davey store used t let me con that pre cous stre Sometimes I read what warriors wrote some times a kings command But oftener still a poets verse writ in a meagei hand meag Lamb Byron Addison and Burns Pope Johnson John-son Swift and Scott I needed lot but n paltry sum to comprehend the Yet when friend Davoy marked em down YF what could I but decline For I was broke in London i the fall of 89 l Of antique dazzling swords heap and spears I saw a vast and That in Curio cheap Fenton offered me at prices pa Ad oh tho quaint old bureaus and the warm ing pans of brass And tho lovely hideous freaks I found In pew ten and in tr i glass And oh the sideboards candlesticks the cracked old china plates te The clocks and S on from Amsterdam that I tat antedate all dates thaio Of such superb monstrosities I found an end loss mine me Wen I was broke in London i the fall of 81 Oh yo idle that by hanker after boons that other The battered things thflt please the son 1 though theymay vex the eye The silver plate and crockery l sanctified with grime I The oaken stuff that has defied the tooth 01 I envious time Tho musty tomes the speckled prints tho mil 1 dewed bills of play m And other costly relics of malodorous decay y Y only can appreciate what agony was mine When I was broke i London in the fall of 891 When in the course of natural things I go t my reward Let no imposing epitaph my martyrdom record Neither in Hebrew Latin Greek or anj classic tonguo Let my ten thousand triumphs over human griefs be sung But in who plain seeks AngloSaxon that ho may knoV What hunt agonizing for freaks pangs Ive had while on thi Let there be writ upon the slab that marks mj grave this line Deccao 01Eugene was broke i London in the fat Eugene Field i Chicago New The Unseasonable Sorcnador Out in tho chill of the midnight gloom Stood the youth with his light guitar Unheeding tho microbes threatening doom Nor chanticleers note afar And ho sang full long full loud full sweet To his Jady lovo on the window seat swe Who gayly sent him from thud to time A bud or a nosegay to cheer his rhyme rhye And this Is tho lay That would skyward stay When ho cleared hla throat and began to pta 1 Oh lady sweet whoso smile I prize smo prie Unloose to me I pray The fettering f rinses XJf thIne eyes Keep not their light away The stars above are gleaming clear Each sylvan voice is still Nor comes the prying sun to peer per Across tho eastern hill Come thats forth then to claim all the homas From you devotion to beauty from me love t youNo No ray thad gilds the arch above arc Cad oer so steadfast bo As tho ibbcasurablc lovo Tad fills my soul for thee Thid be nod coy to leab thy hobo Ad ramble hero and there For dights like these were hade t roab Ad breathe the balhy air Cobe forth this id awful the hobbago thadt I due From atchoo devotion atchoo beg your pardod Washington Post A Bounty and 3 Treasure Her eyes aro n blue an the blue of the skies Wen tho morning f beauty ske And her cheeks glowing description cheek gloig beauty de lies descrpton do With their mixture lilies and roses The sunrise is seen in the shimmering hair te sierng hir That her neck and her shoulders caresses And the splendor of crasaes AI can morning canotily compare With the luminous gold of her tresses Her mouth when shes smilingshowBtwiurowi of pearls smUngsholtwirW That gleam twit the Caroline portals rtls They call hor the gem and perfection of girls The daintiest swcetest otmorlals girl Her voice is a soft as tho coo of tho dove And sweat as tho bobolink tIodovo Her heart i n fountain of kindness and love In freshness perennially springing Shes face endowed with the beauty of person and Possessed by the fair Aphrodite Or Helen the peerless the sweetness and grace That appear in the features of Clytio gce May chanco oye her askance and the youth with I Of winning her hand should employ For sho owns 8 big block of Old Colony stock And 3 cranberry bog1 i Waquoit ap Cod Item His Favorite Ho has 0 pretty rubber ball About one hundred blocks A horse that stands up In a stall sta Five doUr with curly locks No end of cars ore his likewise hi lewe With engines by tho score A set of plates with plaster pies A painted grocery storo But with these things he will not play O them he will not think llnot p1y But hovers all the livelong day About my pen ink John People Kendrick Bangs i Harpers Young f I |
