. Overheard in a garden. WINTER Hoary impostor ! with mock jovial air,You took the green earth prisoner unaware,And pinioned the trees that moan and callTo Spring to free them from your icy manacled the stream, who tugs in vainTo loose himself from your relentless I — ray heart is sad, my lyre is dumb;Mild, Gentle Spring, — oh! will you ever come!31. 32 LESE MAJESTE The Lion ramps around the cage, The Lady smiles to see him rage. The little Mouse outside the bars Looks on and laughs. Well, bless my stars ! Quoth he, to think they call that thing The King of Beasts! If he 5
. Overheard in a garden. WINTER Hoary impostor ! with mock jovial air,You took the green earth prisoner unaware,And pinioned the trees that moan and callTo Spring to free them from your icy manacled the stream, who tugs in vainTo loose himself from your relentless I — ray heart is sad, my lyre is dumb;Mild, Gentle Spring, — oh! will you ever come!31. 32 LESE MAJESTE The Lion ramps around the cage, The Lady smiles to see him rage. The little Mouse outside the bars Looks on and laughs. Well, bless my stars ! Quoth he, to think they call that thing The King of Beasts! If he 5 a King, Who cannot make the Lady wince, What must / be ? When, not long since. Inside the cage I chanced to slip, You should have seen that Lady skip Upon the Lions back. Help! Murder! A Mouse! she screamed; you should have heard her!And then with brooms the keepers cameAnd drove me out (but, all the same,I got the crumb that I was after).A King indeed! Excuse my laughter! 33 A DECADENT Eealities to Him are Cold and Stern. He loves from Natures Crudities to turnTo the Sweet Unrealities of Art And all Her Tinkling Symbolism learn. For Him there is no Kose at the FleuristeVies with the Rose of Cr§pe of the Modiste And Paradise, without a Milliner He vows would be unutterably Triste. 34
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