. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. en she walketh abroad, (here itis on another sample) he shadeth her at two miles off withhis umbrella. It is like an allegory of Love triumphingover space. The lady is walking upon one of those frequentpetty islets, on a plain, as if of porcelain, without anyherbage, only a solitary flower springs up, seemingly byenchantment, at her fairy-like foot. The watery spacebetween the lovers is aptly left as a blank, excepting heradorable shadow, which is tending towards her slave. How reverentially is yon urchin presenting his flowersto the Grey-beard! So ho
. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. en she walketh abroad, (here itis on another sample) he shadeth her at two miles off withhis umbrella. It is like an allegory of Love triumphingover space. The lady is walking upon one of those frequentpetty islets, on a plain, as if of porcelain, without anyherbage, only a solitary flower springs up, seemingly byenchantment, at her fairy-like foot. The watery spacebetween the lovers is aptly left as a blank, excepting heradorable shadow, which is tending towards her slave. How reverentially is yon urchin presenting his flowersto the Grey-beard! So honourably is age considered inChina! There would be some sense, there, in birth-daycelebrations. Here, in another compartment, is a solitary scholar, ap-parently studying the elaborate didactics of Con-Fuse-Ye. The Chinese have, verily, the advantage of us uponearthenware! They trace themselves as lovers, contempla-tists, philosophers: — whereas, to judge from our jugs andmugs, we are nothing but sheepish piping shepherds PERE LA CHAISF. 103 THE STAG-EYED LADY. Scheherazade immediately began the following story. Ali Ben Ali (did you never read His wondrous acts that chronicles relate,—How there was one in pity might exceed The sack of Troy ?) Magnificent he sateUpon the throne of greatness—great indeed, For those that he had under him were great—The horse he rode on, shod with silver nails,Was a Bashaw—Bashaws have horses tails. Ali was cruel—a most cruel one ! Tis rumourd he had strangled his own mother—Howbeit such deeds of darkness he had done, Tis thought he would have slain his elder brotherAnd sister too—but happily that none Did live within harms length of one another,Else he had sent the Sun in all its blazeTo endless night, and shortend the Moons days, 104 THE STAG-EYED LADY. Despotic power, that mars a weak mans wit, And makes a bad man—absolutely bad,Made Ali wicked—to a fault:—tis fit Monarchs should have some check-strings; but
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