DOUBLE BALLADE OF PROPER NAMES.
I've met (in wax) Voltaire,
The atheist, Tom Paine,
The "blatant beast," Hébert,
Called also "Père Duchêne";
The bluff Sir Harry Vane,
The boys' delight, Defoe,
Brave Abraham Duquesne,
And "Bayard" Oudinot.
Fell "Jean qui rit" Barrère,
The Tartar, Tamerlane,
The "sea-green" Robespierre,
The sportive "Pea-Green" Hayne.
The boxer, "Big Ben" Brain,
The convert, Bendigo,
The social Walter Crane,
And gay Boccaccio.
The gloomy Baudelaire,
The wise Professor Bain,
Truth-loving Labouchere,
The anatomic Quain,
The dramatist, Sedaine;
The polished Marivaux,
The able critic, Taine,
And keen La Rochefoucauld.
The learnèd brothers Hare,
The "mummer," John Maclean,
The dismal poet, Blair,
The funny Corney Grain;
That "innocent," Mark Twain,
The Spaniard, Candamo,
The gentle Julian Fane,
And Edgar Allan Poe.
The perjured knight, Macaire,
The recreant Bazaine,
The pious Lacordaire,
The Anglophobist, Blaine;
The rebel Gen'ral Wayne,
The gen'rous Waterlow,
The "good time coming" Swain,
And wise old Cicero.
The Dutch sea-dog, Le Maire,
The warlike Prince Eugène,
The gallant Earl of Stair;
Grim Philip, King of Spain,
Our Saxon Athelstane,
The false queen, Isabeau,
The nine days queen, Queen Jane,
And Madame d'Houdetot.
My Lady Castlemaine,
The ghostly Mrs. Crowe,
The fleshy Eveleen Rayne,
And Mrs. Beecher Stowe.