Pegasus re-saddled . ,Hinting the need of mental tonics ; Whence comes the pale preceptor hereTo give his lesson in mnemonics ? Is it from him whose un-urned shade Petitions that, instead of joking,The debt of kinship should be paid To-day at Kensal Green or Woking ? 40 A GORDIAN KNOT. Poor Tom! you were not much to me,A cousin, twice removed, by marriage, Removed once more by fates decree—At any rate Ill send the carriage. . Or, query, was it him at all ? This true-love knot may be a tokenOf some fair vision Id recall— Of faithless vows and promise broken ? Loves tryst unkept by haunted well.
Pegasus re-saddled . ,Hinting the need of mental tonics ; Whence comes the pale preceptor hereTo give his lesson in mnemonics ? Is it from him whose un-urned shade Petitions that, instead of joking,The debt of kinship should be paid To-day at Kensal Green or Woking ? 40 A GORDIAN KNOT. Poor Tom! you were not much to me,A cousin, twice removed, by marriage, Removed once more by fates decree—At any rate Ill send the carriage. . Or, query, was it him at all ? This true-love knot may be a tokenOf some fair vision Id recall— Of faithless vows and promise broken ? Loves tryst unkept by haunted sweet forget-me-nots forgotten. . Perhaps its only someones bill I backd i—of course it turned out rotten,- Or hint to pay that bet I owe For views about the Derby winner; Id rather much it was to goTo Greenwich to a whitebait dinner. .. A GORDIAN KNOT. 41 Of pay or play may preach this knot—Of death or duns or loves emotion— I tied it yesterday, but what It means, Ive not the faintest
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