Why leapest thou,
Why leapest thou
So high within my breast?
Oh, stay thee now,
Oh, stay thee now,
Thou little bounder, rest!
--Ruskin (at 12).
Something had happened wrong about a bill,
Which was not drawn with true mercantile skill,
So to amend it I was told to go
To seek the firm of Clutterbuck & Co.
--George Crabbe.
But let me not entirely overlook
The pleasure gathered from the rudiments
Of geometric science.
--Wordsworth.
Israel in ancient days
Not only had a view
Of Sinai in a blaze,
But heard the Gospel too.
--Cowper.
Flashed from his bed the electric message came;
He is no better; he is much the same.
--A Cambridge prize poem.
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A household hinter advises that "if the thin white curtains blow into
the gas and catch fire sew small lead weights into the seams." Before
doing this, however, it would be wise to turn in an alarm.
* * *
The orchestra was playing too loud to suit the manager, so he complained
to the leader. "The passage is written in forte," said the latter.
"Well, make it about thirty-five."
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