. Punch . the other ; At which we ejaculate mentally, Thats Exactly the case of Kilkennys famed cats. Nor een to the end does the simile fail, For nothing remains of them now but their tale. The Chorus, expecting that Creon will enter, With energy point to the door in the centre. They say that he s summoned of sages a host By Herald ! But why not by Times or by Post ? Of the summons they re hoping to get at the cause. When Creon walks in to a round of applause : To the nobles assembled he tells his decree, That poor Polyniccs unburied shall be. They nothing reply, though they prhaps think it h
. Punch . the other ; At which we ejaculate mentally, Thats Exactly the case of Kilkennys famed cats. Nor een to the end does the simile fail, For nothing remains of them now but their tale. The Chorus, expecting that Creon will enter, With energy point to the door in the centre. They say that he s summoned of sages a host By Herald ! But why not by Times or by Post ? Of the summons they re hoping to get at the cause. When Creon walks in to a round of applause : To the nobles assembled he tells his decree, That poor Polyniccs unburied shall be. They nothing reply, though they prhaps think it hard ; When all of a sudden there enters a Guard— Hes full of alarm, and his toga and tights Conduce to his looking the queerest of frights. {King Creon was surely uncommonly needy, If we judge by his guards, who are awfully seedy.) The sentinel states, though hes watched night and day, The body by somebody s taken away ; The King in a truly monarchical fashion Soon works himself into a towering passion,. And swears, if the culprits not found in a trice, That in killing the Guard he wont be oer-nice ; A volley of threats at the fellow he fires, And having exhausted his fury, retires. The nobles, suspected of having a shave In this job, that has much of a black job the air, In asserting their innocence take a wide scope, By singing an Essay on Man, a la Pope. King Creon comes in when the Chorus is done, And hears that Anliijones self is the one Who buried her brother. The deed she avows, And then there ensues the most awful of rows ! Her sister Ismene is sent for, who cries That she will die loo if Antigone dies : An assertion thats much more heroic than wise ! PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 43 Alas ! her sincerity soon will be proved,For both are in custody straightway removed.
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