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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m<§thode. 2:x 1 2 3 4 5 6 T^n=lr=zJf LAI MERRY JUI Sont "Kin & Graha R. R. R. / LAPFUL OF LYRICS AND ERRY MUSE -WHANGS, BT •TUDSON FRANCE. poetica siirKifc Tempestas. Juv. mes vers Sont des vers de jeuue homme .■' TOEONTO, 1885. 7=yT=] r=Jr^ir--^ in.in & GRAHAM. Printers, 2^ C.olOorneV, Toronto MEMORI^ MEl ALTERIUS H^C POEMATA JUVENILIA NUNC DEDICO. CONTENTS. < A L^ i ll Old Letters Snovvdakes Like a Soldier Fallen ... The Haunted Mill The Cruel Dulcinea Frauciscus de Amicitia : — I. After Many Years II. Chums III. Three Sonnets to an Old Friend To Tennyson : — I. On his Acceptance of a Peerage . II. On his last Poem (?) on Freedom Studies at Church , Gordon A Cynic Speaks A Blawsted Love Song At Boarding School Serenayde Shekels and Pedigree The Way o' the Warld Shakes Vive la Ropublique ... Two Statesmen Rangavac ... ... Vers a Clarice V cL16 ••• ••■ ••• ••• ••• ••• FAOB f) 8 10 12 IS 15 l(i 17 18 1(1 21 22 2." 24 2r. 2(i 27 28 j 2M| 2i) I 29 30 30 i 31 A cnii I TAKK tllGl Yellow, I And my th Ah I rea(; i leie is one Jn a hold It run.s iu t And speu Hear old T( l"'ond of s <^iixotic, to For he 's I He fought a With a ri' Ami his riva And low i l>iit a right | H(j 's helpi True to the Together ^ 'sea Now duellini Of the pa,H Tig a (.'hrist rnvvorfchy Si)oakiii,'of di Iniid inim who n fii k room. Tho t kind man, not ImiliUor of Haiiti A LAPFUL OF LYRICS. OLD LETTERS. A cup for nioi.iory. -CirmsTiSA (i. Uohktti. I TAKK tliem out of my escritoire, \ellovv, and sor(N aud fade,! with aye; And luy thoughts glido hack to dim dSys of yoro Ah I read ayaiu eacli familiar page. ^ Here is one from mv college chum, In a bold round hand, now the paper's yellow It rmi.s m tins wise, " Say, won't Vou come And spend your holidays with me, old fellow?" Dear old Tom ! he was rather fast, l;ond ot sport, and women, and wine- Quixotic, too, but that 's all past 1' or he -s become food for the worms iang syne. He fought a duel, 'twas in Venice, I think, \ ith a rival there for a beautiful maid. And his rival s sword his blood did drink. And low in the dust poor Tom was laid. IJut a right good fellow he was, I'll say •rvn ;' u^'^'^ '"^ ?''^ "'■ '^*"y a scrape; I rue to the core, though odd in his way Together we 've had many a hair-breadth scape. .Now (Uielling's almost one ot tlie thiuus r. '-""'^"^^s-^ ^onv a.s the laureate sin^s tnworthy of gentlemen every where. ='^ " 6 Horn is a dolifiitd tinted slioet NViit in a lino Italian liand, •TiH from Milly. Oucu I was undor lior foot, And came aud went at my (^uoeD's commaud. A desperate flirt, and a coquette too She WiiH, as 1 've ^'ood cause to remember. I picture her now as her then I knew, Hy the tire to-nit,'ht in this bleak December. Tall aud stately she was aud fair, A splendid type of a Saxon {,'irl, With tresses of wavy f,'ol(lbri<4ht liair, And a throat and slioiilder more white tlian pearl. Such a girl as an artist woukl ^o wild over, Vea, ifo into rapturous ecstasies; Such a <,'irl as is sure to have many a lover. Poets love to rave of sucli fathondess eyes. Eyes of passionate, dreamy, blue, Kycs whore exquisite dalliauce slumbers; I, on my I'cf^asus, used to spue Forth, at times, outrageous rhythmical uuml)ers. Wherein I compared her cheeks to flowers, And her eyes to stars, and licr lips to win(\ iler breath to spices from fragrant bowers, And her form to Cytherea's divine. Ah no ! I cannot forget the night Long ago, when last we danced together ; The ravishing music thrilled me quite In that golden, rose-flushe(i summer weather. Her long blonde hair fell on my shoulder, My arm was claspeel round her dainty waist Her tempting lips as the night grew older I longed, nyum nyum, more and more to taste. After the dance in a cool retreat, About her sho.ilders I wrapped her shawl, And then where two devious pathways meet, I told her I loved her best of all. There in the moonlight on bended knee, I knelt at her feet, of course I was silly. Raw from college, you know, and she— " Well, she answered, "I never could rnarrv you, Billy !" ^ I Yes, 1 wa Was IK \A\u\ all r Is a loc I She's niai Of chil( |Sh(! rides She ha h |Ah! that'! Someho |I''rom lioa' In libert llfauy luor 'roru CO bi |Sisters an( Of cours( 'es, many Pleasant Some of th Some ha fro other la Many ha^ fancy Jove As I drea Kere's one 1 A clever f ["Vud the fav On Joe,— Some are w< Some are Hou]e throuf Of vice an bid letters, ] As I sit to \\uii well-kn( < )n tlifi elo blov 'ou are time More preci 'hat shed th( In royal pr idor hor foot, con's coiiimaiul. ) too remembor. kuow, sak Decoinbor. r, rl. t hair, ro white than I wild over, luy a lover, oniloHs eyes. 3 sluraborH; rhythmical bo flowera, lips to wiiin, it howerR, .'iuo. together ; luito omer woathei. loulder, dainty wai.sL, 3w older md more to her shawl, ways meet, knee, 'as silly, she — uld marry |V(«. I was jilfcod, lor I nnto hor And al I ve „ft to prove that I know her. IH a lock of hair and this laded letter. Isi.e's nmnie.l now, and a whole caboodle, Ot c uMrou are reared in the nurse's hands- She ndes m her carriage, and strokes her poo I that's the worst of ^ettinf? married, ' homehow or other babies will come Iron, heaven, by swift- winged seraphs carried, In liberal numbers to grace the home. Ibiuy more letters still I unfold, Irom cousins and atmts and friends an.l brotlicrs, |Sisters and sweethearts of luine <,f old ()l course I prize .some more than others. [Ves many more theie are in this heap, I i leasant letters and spiteful too • ^orae of the writers forever sleep, ' Some have sailed o'er the stormy blue flo other lands beyond the sea, Many have died in their youthful prime • fancy loved voices come back to me. As I dream to-night of the olden time. Here's one from Ned, he's a lawyer now, A clever follow, Q. C., L , - ., |\tid the favouring winds ot vortune blow ■n .Joe,— he's a rising .tow- bones you .see. ■ioine are well-heeled, and others are poor .Some are single, and others are spliced, ' Some througl, the wide, dung-open door, Of vice and drink have been enticed. f)ld letters, I tenderly thumb you o'er I As I sit to-night in my room alone; ' pnd well-known scenes I see once more, ■n tlio clouds of siuuke from my meerschaum uJOWD, ioa ai-e time-tried frieu, Lon^ riiuto through the iiiiHtH of the old nta.\\ yearH, Aud tho riiro delight that each leaf ailordH Ih HVVitet as the toncH tiiat an au^ul heatH. I drink iu a beaker of ruby wiue, That HoudH my chill blood rushing warm t| my heart, To those that have written each friendly lino, To tho loves aud the f •iendHhips loii}^ HunderoJ apart. I lock my treanures a<,'ain in their place, Hidden from all the world but uie ; No one shall know, of my own free f»race, Of the sad sweet thing's that in them be. SNOWFLAKES. OvKH the slumluirinf^ town. Over the steeples brown, Snowflakes come softlj' down, And the trees are clad in wliite. The moon from you pale blue cloud, I'eeps out like a f^host in a shroud, And the f^jrand old trees in tho wood, Are silver-crested to-nij^ht. The delicate frostwork gleams, P.ri^'litoned by Dian's beams, liike fairy fabric it seems, Over the hills and dales Flakes fall in the keen cold night. Flutter aud dance in their flight, While tho moon, with glory bedight. In her golden bride-robe sails. Light as ambrosial rains, Liglit as a bank clerk's brains, Light as love's silken chains. See how they crowd through the air; Lightly the ground they kiss, With a graceful touch that is Soft as a lover's press, When her old man isn't there. Soft n» Fair as Light at Clearl C'overinj (Nude a Till all ( Fair a White aj White at Still, stil If it k( Tho mor And tho That hea Will ri » Thicker i Now thai Ihit that I'iXcellt And Dick Off tho 8i 'Fore the Such ti Fach Jac It's imme 'Neath oc So tho I Oct up th Horse, cu Was't the To her Flecking ; Lip not fa Maybe tw To each |0 no! of c It's naugh What nev< IsP Over the 1 Arras sorai As all you Of bully Moonlight You whisp A fellow cj Since PI woul Ntrin(:;H, r lnn<^ yctirn Htil it Hj)rii ^H, playur'H will : waktued cljordh H of the old f,'ra\ leaf atlordH ati^ol hoarH. e, iishing warm i h frlondiy liii(\ ips lon<4 Hundrn lir place, it iiio ; free f»race, in them bo. liito. cloud, roud, 3 wood, R, ifiht, [lit, odiftlit, lis. h the air; re. ?^offc m an angol's troa hu « J-cnco to his played-out omra, without oxnufninL- at tbi« Jo was wruten at a time Xn its catchoriLd ^on^^ojf w"r'o ■ ^'- + Or Melcliizodek was in knickerbockeiR 10 A (lance and a supper and then, Over the snow once again, When the shadows floe, and the thin Gray mists of morning arise. List ! the music of the bells, How it rises, how it swells, How it jingles and upwells. As the cutter onward flies! *■**», Over the slumbering town, Over the steeples brown, Gently the snowflakes come down And their fleecy flight foretells liJe glorious sleighing-time. When happy hearts keep chime Ji P"''^'^ ^^ ^ rapturous rhyme. That is one with the merry sleigh-bells. LIKE A SOLDIER FALLEN. Uiu\i"^Tl?^'\ of' S'llln-"* '""1 ehivnhons Col. Fred Bui-nntl im "'" •"'*"" °^ ■'^" Kloa.noar Metomneh, January l| TiOvdfievni yap KaUi> irrl irpo/iaxoun iremvra 'Av(V/ dyaOov irepl y na-futh /inf)vd/ievoi>, T.r- too soon is thy red life ended, Dead alas ! on Metemneh's sands, ^ose career was a romance splendid, c.-.,"^ ., y^'^ triumphs in many lands, htilled the beats of thy heart of valour. Hero, first o'er the walls of Teb t Llanched thy face with death's cold stran-^e pallor, " Meshed at last in a wild fate's web. Launcelot, Bayard, thou too art sleeping Ihe stately sleep of the deathless dead ! Nevermore will thy blood bound leapin.^ VVith battle-rapture on fields blood-red. J^ion-heart ! through thy slumber's silence Does no dream of the fierce fray come ? Shrills no sound of the battle's vi'lence, (xleams no banner, and whirs no drum ? Not on earth wilt thou o'er awaken brightness of banner and drip of drum, Cannons thunder, and squadrons shaken Surely these to thy memory come. The brave Mars-stricken live on for ever Ever memories of brave men throncr, ' Thou Shalt fade from remembrance never Dare-devil, aronaut, athlete stron./ f pleep, hav Pierced ■itroug the Though In a uiysti By comr Ho thou he With fac Pender- hei At fire, s |Vhen in di liuthless it IJarcelo Of thee I lelted soft Frank ej In Odin's p Dvvelt th 'ikings, vi( Had larg The rough Trod eacl ii'ought the All the p] Purely thoij Sate in tl 5urely thou Where th friiou from f Far from Surely, sold ( Meed of riio (loath of ( lb— a pitcher Ic soniif^t in m fiicli, tholaatte liut^iit by niai; \i tho Uroat B tiunniihant '"Noth In such a qi Hilt in that 'L'o Bhak l'ilaii(!t^.vrino an M' liiR iiolitical pi Kill for tho f^iaut Hit ho wished foi ■i:i in tho HntiR: 11 be thin own, ills le yjne, ileigh-bells. LLEN. Col, Fred Burnnlj imiieh, January j; T< niaovTa flEVOH. TYIlTy-EUK. I, is, ndid, r lands. alour, i! 'Id stran