AGE COLLOQUIAL SATIRE Author:Bailey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Songs deal with feelings, mainly. Oft, events The reader's judgment hints or supplements. The intimate connection 'tween our land And neighbour Europe, by electr... more »ic band, Shows not upon the surface, understand. I understand. Such nonsense, as it means, May serve for ultras, or for sub-marines ; Your regular " salts " are not such vivid greens. These lyrics, if I take you, form a riddle, Minus the wires that go across the middle ? AUTHOK. Therefore, not wire-drawn. Critic. Oh, you are deadly funny, And might " go," but you've neither " mare " nor " money." AUTHOR. Suppose I read a few lines ? FRIEND. "Well, proceed. CRITIC. Stop ; spare us that infliction. Let me read. A bard's " intoning " is so truly odd ; Of all the heroes of the land of Nod, Commend me most to Jubal, drowsy sire Of mad musician's harp and poet's lyre. "When song I read I choose to loll at ease, And blow my rainbow bubbles as I please, From creamy vellum, printed fair and large, in Such memorable vacancy of margin, As brings some compensation to the mind For inability aught else to find. Whene'er I open a poetic scroll A serio-comic wonder fills my soul; I've such sensations, doubtless, as a swimmer Feels, when for ocean's under-billowy glimmer He changes daylight, tumbling head first down, And thinking the first moment dive and drown Much like, till he recovers from his blunder Yet wonders all the while he still can wonder "Whether he be above the earth or under. The whole from public nature strikes so far; The tone of thought rings with such crazy jar ; The scene, too, so unlike this chequered sphere We plumeless bipeds pad about on here. AUTHOR. . Your charge against us proves that we succeed, Or partially, at least, in what you read. To metaphysics in...« less