IV.

If Humour is your little line,

Coherent sense you must resign,

Cry, "Paradox alone's divine!

LAMB had _his_ manner, _this_ is Mine!"

Try strain and twist; gnaw the dry bone

Of mirth till all the marrow's gone;

And crowds, who first stared like a stone,

Your "subtle genius" soon will own.

_Chorus_--Tra-la! We "boom" to-day!

[_Ad nauseam._

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892 · 第 7 / 28 题