Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . ame is done. And how it all resembles LifeWhere bubble-blowing is the strife,Their bright gleaming our rewardWhile their bursting our sad record. This peroration leads to Poe,From whom we differ, for we knowThis life is not an endless woeOn a dark Plutonian shore. When bubbles burst, we blow some more!Thus stopping that gloating Ravens quotingHimself monotonously oerOn memories ever-echoing shore. Poor Poe! How sad thou shouldst not know it,Europe, at least, did hail thee ! How thy fire was quenched and lost onThat Plymouth-rocky so
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . ame is done. And how it all resembles LifeWhere bubble-blowing is the strife,Their bright gleaming our rewardWhile their bursting our sad record. This peroration leads to Poe,From whom we differ, for we knowThis life is not an endless woeOn a dark Plutonian shore. When bubbles burst, we blow some more!Thus stopping that gloating Ravens quotingHimself monotonously oerOn memories ever-echoing shore. Poor Poe! How sad thou shouldst not know it,Europe, at least, did hail thee ! How thy fire was quenched and lost onThat Plymouth-rocky soil of Boston—That impenetrable Side of Boston. [260] Digitized by Microsoft® The Bacon Theory Of all the things that vex the mind,Of all the things that are not clear,I think I need but mention one—Who was Shakespeare? The greater we make out the man,The greater grows the mystery:Why should he wish to live and dieIn absolute obscurity? But make that man a King worse than in a fog,The atmosphere begins to clearAbout [261] Digitized by Microsoft® Pepys Pepys unconscious fun is fine,No need to read between his linesHow that most lovable old sinnerMighty merry at some dinner,Tracing that dinner to its endIn haste must for the doctor to relieve his passing illAdministers the timely touching his simplicityFor when his pretty wife awakesShe finds him weeping course they make it up —Mighty merry all next day—And she—a new gown doth display.
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