. William De Morgan and his wife . where she with wailing sank to earth, While he the devilish engine locked and barred. Then we approached. That Demon feU and foul With broom upraised, in act to strike, surveyed My Teacher, with forbidding mien. But he With mild rebuke suggested other course. Forbear, he said, for beings twain can play The game thy mood suggesteth. So he fled. And the woman from beneath the cage, O mortal, for that such thou art I see, I was on Earth a Dowdy and a Blue And eke strong-minded. Wherefore I bewail Hampered by deadly Crinoline, my Sins. O pity, though thou blame !
. William De Morgan and his wife . where she with wailing sank to earth, While he the devilish engine locked and barred. Then we approached. That Demon feU and foul With broom upraised, in act to strike, surveyed My Teacher, with forbidding mien. But he With mild rebuke suggested other course. Forbear, he said, for beings twain can play The game thy mood suggesteth. So he fled. And the woman from beneath the cage, O mortal, for that such thou art I see, I was on Earth a Dowdy and a Blue And eke strong-minded. Wherefore I bewail Hampered by deadly Crinoline, my Sins. O pity, though thou blame ! And O take note (Alas ! Alas ! that ever I took notes) Of my forlornncss ! Not a book have I T inform the stronger-minded ! No—not a tome I Hast thou a Cyclopaedia ? Perchance Thou hast, and thou wouldst lend it. . .* The next illustration, No. 9, represents the Hell of those :— Wlio are wont to take no sugar in their teas,O error prime and impious (De Morgan himself being wont to indulge in a plentiful 70 WILLIAM DE MORGAN. supply.) Therein a friend is seen bearing away one of the offendersin a wheelbarrow to immerse him in a pool of molasses ; whileNo. 10, a man on a gallows, is said to depict an enemy of thepre-Raphaelite Brotherhood :— Say, who wast thou on Earth, I said to himWho swung in midmost air with woeful plaint. I was a hanger ! straight he answered me. I who once hanged, now hang for hanged my friends upon a line. All skied, and now myself am skied ! Explain, said IAnd he— I was of the AcademyWhere Plato taught. In thy Square TrafalgarAn Academician I The Boshite hanged, and skied the altogether fearless to becomeIn danger of the Council, turned him at the gallows base a bitter fiendWith scoff and scorn cried out— Go hang thyself IThou rogue thou. In a similar vein many other pictures are explained ; and mean-while Holiday, with well-feigned erudition, discussed them fromthe standpoint of an excavator and antiquaria
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