. Punch . the midst of the Band ;Apparently awed by the numbers around,He looks at the ceiling and then at the ground. His collar turned down his pretensions assert, For Genius ever is known by the shirt A Symphony solemn is slowly gone through, The instruments making a blunder or two, Which causes the youth with the collar turned down To crush an unfortunate Flute with a frown, Or make at the Drum some exceeding wry faces, As if the grosse caisse was the grossest of cases. The curtain ascends, and discovers a view To classic authority perfectly true ; A stage—whose five different door-ways be
. Punch . the midst of the Band ;Apparently awed by the numbers around,He looks at the ceiling and then at the ground. His collar turned down his pretensions assert, For Genius ever is known by the shirt A Symphony solemn is slowly gone through, The instruments making a blunder or two, Which causes the youth with the collar turned down To crush an unfortunate Flute with a frown, Or make at the Drum some exceeding wry faces, As if the grosse caisse was the grossest of cases. The curtain ascends, and discovers a view To classic authority perfectly true ; A stage—whose five different door-ways bespeak That the scenic arrangement is thoroughly Greek. Two ladies now enter—Antigone s one, And when the applause at her entrance is done, She gracefully turns to Ismene—the other, And says she s determined to bury her brother. In that there would nothing particular be, Except that its death by a certain decree. As a tragedy lady is likely to view it— The deed being dangerous, prompts her to do Ismene s her sister, and tries to dissuade her ; Though her sister, she II neither assist her nor aid her. Antigone says to her plan she 11 adhere, And the ladies through opposite doors disappear. A feeling of classical rapture comes oer us, Which is smashd when there enters a queer-looking Chorus, With sheets on their shoulders and rouge on their cheeks ; Though Greek in their guise, they are sad guys of Greeks. Their fleshings, which ought to fit close to their shapes, Are clumsily fastend with ill-conceald tapes ; And if the theatrical text be relied on. The skins of the Greeks were most carelessly tied on. A chorus they sing—which is rather a long one— But still in a musical point tis a strong one. We dont very often hear anything finer Than the beautiful change from the major to minor. Unable to make head or tail of their shout, We learn by the book what they re singing about. They sing of a fight twixt a brother and brother. In which one killed the one, and the oth
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