Local Lyrics (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Local Lyrics Odes To Eminent Personages. To W. L. Jackson, Esq., M.P. In days gone by, when Persian captains led, On glory bent, their serried hosts to battle, They hired poets - so the legend said - To cheer their camp; and when the deadly rattle Of hostile arms lapsed for a season, they Employed those bards to sing a roundelay. So, now my Lawies, when your wordy fray Has lulled, at length, although your eyes still glisten With warlike ardour, prithee turn away To some cool shade, where you, in peace, may listen The while the bard, in plaintive number, sings Of your career, and divers other things. ´Tis said, by whom I know not, at your birth, Whilst still you lay enshrined within your cradle - A human snowdrop peeping from the earth - Your infant jaws contained no silver ladle: A stupid oversight - by Nature´s fluke, You found yourself a tanner - not a duke. And yet the fairies, who are said to trace Man´s fate ere birth, refused to leave you stranded Upon the desert shores of Common-place; To struggle on, unarmed and single-handed, They named you "Lawies." Had they wished you ill, They might have blighted you with simple "Bill." "Bill Jackson." Ah, enwrapped in such a name, Cursed by a term so bare and uneuphonious, Though born a statesman, still unknown to Fame, You might have died a rat, like poor Polonius; Your "proper person" hidden from men´s gaze Behind the arras of a homely phrase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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