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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Unpublished Poem IAdam Lindsay Gordon - Unpublished Poem I
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JONES plays the deuce with his grammar, Knocks time and tense into tin-tacks ; Brown, the big Visigoth, wielding blunt hammer, Mauls right and left the Queen`s syntax. I may be only a rhymer (Where the fire fails let the ice lie) Brown, come and lend me a rhyme - ‘Oh, Jemimer !’ Thank you, Brown ; that will do nicely. Brown had us down we outlive it Possibly Brown may be under Some day. We neither take quarter nor give it ; Brown finds it warm what `s the wonder ? You storm Parnassus and Helicon, Climb you the hill overcome it, Top it. Why, then you can sit like a pelican Sticking your beak in the summit. Then you will not be contented ! Many things here are worth winning ; Nothing once won is worth prizing. Who scented Fame first ? Who had the last inning ? Brown shakes his head : ‘This is temper : Mere spleen for loss of the last trick.` Juvenile Mark mutters sagely (sic semper), ‘Great is the juice that is gastric.’ Yes, I confess, Aristophanes Yesterday puzzled me sadly ; Sybil last Tuesday took all the hair off her knees Hushing that paling so madly. Courage! I’d sold little Sybil ; Certes ! yon Greek was a pagan ; I shall get over my grief ; I shall scribble Do some more discount with Fagan. I with these verse freaks I care for, You with those flights as a poet, Maybe some day we shall both know the wherefore ; Maybe we never shall know it.
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