(_By a Gallio._)
["Poetry will degenerate into mere literary _bric-a-brac_,
such as the composition of rondels and triolets."--DR. C. H.
PEARSON.]
Literary odds and ends
Will for lays be scribbled!
PEARSON thus ahead portends
"Litter"-ary odds and ends.
Pessimist, you owe amends
For this forecast ribald:--
"Literary odds and ends
Will for lays be scribbled!"
Call you then mere _bric-a-brac_
Triolet and rondel?
_All_ that's knocked off with a knack
Call you then mere _bric-a-brac_?"
Man of prose, you thus attack
VILLON, DOBSON, BLONDEL.
Call you _then_ mere _bric-a-brac_
Triolet and rondel?!
'Pon my word, _I_ don't much care
If you prove your thesis.
Poetry's not _my_ affair--
'Pon my word, I don't much care!
My three triolets pray tear
As you please, to pieces!
'Pon my word, I don't much care
If _they_ prove your thesis!
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The recent illuminations in Paris, it is said, were a very costly
matter. Naturally, as an "_affaire de LUX(E)_."
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