Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . 43 iG^ Tupper When passion like a raging floodSurges through our distempered bloodThen we should practise self-control,Strengthen our will and save our soul. This about as TupperishAs einy Tupperite could wish,To such it may be safely toldSilence has been compared to gold. But not with Tupper, when he sangThe golden guineas round him rang,Yet many bards who better singLack this satis-factory [267] Digitized by Microsoft® Crichton We must touch up the youthful CrichtonBy all allowed to be a bright un—Do not omit the Admirable—Who it would
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . 43 iG^ Tupper When passion like a raging floodSurges through our distempered bloodThen we should practise self-control,Strengthen our will and save our soul. This about as TupperishAs einy Tupperite could wish,To such it may be safely toldSilence has been compared to gold. But not with Tupper, when he sangThe golden guineas round him rang,Yet many bards who better singLack this satis-factory [267] Digitized by Microsoft® Crichton We must touch up the youthful CrichtonBy all allowed to be a bright un—Do not omit the Admirable—Who it would seem was barely ableWith this addition to his nameTo get it on the roll of Fame. Indeed his life reads like a fable,For have you ever seen or lit onA single word by this great Crichton?Whats in a name? we well may sayWhen of a man great in his dayAll but the name, has passed away! [268] Digitized by Microsoft® Horace Walpole Walpole needeth not my pen,His own pen doth him best display,The man and manners of his dayHe clearly shows in this one ray;So to his hand I leave the job0£ picturing the perfect Snob. Men of the proudest blood shall not blush to distinguish themselTesin letters, as well as arms, when they learn what excellence LordHerbert has attained.
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