I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, say… ‘Let us melt into the landscape—ju… People have come—in a carriage—cal… Yes, I can go if you take me—Nurs… Let’s go up to the pig—sties and s…

“Farewell, Romance!” the Cave-men… “With bone well carved He went aw… Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips the spear to-day. Changed are the Gods of Hunt and…

TELL it to the locked—up trees, Cuckoo, bring your song here! Warrant, Act and Summons, please, For Spring to pass along here! Tell old Winter, if he doubt,

WHEN the Great Ark, in Vigo Ba… Rode stately through the half—mann… From every ship about her way She heard the mariners entreat— “Before we take the seas again

We are very slightly changed From the semi—apes who ranged India’s Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran his brother down, you know,

“These were never your true love’s… Why do you feign that you love the… You that broke from their constanc… And the wide calm brows above them… This was never your true love’s sp…

Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and k… Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garments’ hem:

Jelaludin Muhammed Akbar, Guardi… Moved his standards out of Delhi… Where a mosque was to be builded,… And Munim Khan, his Viceroy, sli… High as Hope upsheered her out—wo…

ENGLAND is a cosy little countr… Excepting for the draughts along t… And that is why you’re told, When the passages are cold: “Darling, you’ve forgot to shut th…

THE BACHELOR ’e fights for on… As joyful as can be; But the married man don’t call it… Because ’e fights for three— For ’Im an’ ’Er an’ It

Through the Plagues of Egyp’ we w… Gettin’ down an’ shovin’ in the su… An’ you might 'ave called us dirty… An’ you might ‘ave ’eard us talkin… But the Captain ‘ad ’is jacket, a…

THE DARK eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion, rapine, hate,

NO DOUBT but ye are the People… Whoso speaks in your presence must… Bowing the head in worship, bendin… Bringing the word well smoothen—su… Fenced by your careful fathers, ri…

NOW there is nothing wrong with m… Except—I think it’s called T.B. And that is why I have to lay Out in the garden all the day. Our garden is not very wide,

When, foot to wheel and back to wi… The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light… The blind bow thunder through the… And, like a harpstring ere it snap…