"Mark twain!"—that serves you for a deathless sign—
On Mississippi's waterway rang out
Over the plummet's line—
Still where the countless ripples laugh above
The blue of halcyon seas long may you keep
Your course unbroken, buoyed upon a love
Ten thousand fathoms deep!
Some three years later came Punch's "Ave, atque Vale," when Mark Twain died in April, 1910:—
Farewell the gentle spirit, strong to hold
Two sister lands beneath its laughter's spell!