TO THE NEW WOMEN O YE maids who carp at Cupid and indignantly complain Should a butler smug and stupid offer you a sweet champagne ; Tell me honestly and truly, are you never shocked or stung By the ridicule unruly of an aged uncle's tongue? I've a little friend at Girton, in Latinity immersed, Whom her coach considered certain of a very brilliant 6 first; For the classics once she clamoured, on digamma doted -once ; Now she's hopelessly enamoured of an athlete and a dunce. Simul unctos Tiberinis humeros lavit in undis, Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte, neque pugno Neque segni pede victus ; s; Catus idem per apertum fugientes agitato Grege cervos iaculari et celer alto latitantem Fruticeto excipere aprum. He's a demon of a diver; rides inexorably straight; If there's any sort of slaughter to be dexterously done, On the moor or on the water, with the rod or with the gun, None can boast an aim so peerless, none a bag that's half as big, None displays a nerve so fearless at the sticking of the pig! AD MELPOMENEN EXEGI Monumentum aere perennius, Regalique situ pyramidum altius ; Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam. Usque ego postera A PROPHECY THOUGH MY Monument is builded not of marble nor of brass, "Twill outshine good Albert's statue, Eiffel's pinnacle surpass. Never may the rains assail it, blizzards round about it rage, In imperishable splendour lasting on from age to age. For so long as Mr. Speaker, ushered by the silent mace, Stalks with stately ceremonial to his high appointed place, Though my venerable figure shall have vanished from the scene, F |