And the proofman designates their airy, fairy verse as ‘slim,’

And the staff guard by the door with broken bricks,

As they tremulously venture to suggest a modest ‘jim’

For a ‘liquid’ poem, costing eight-and-six!

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STAR GAZING.

I camped last night in a desert grey

’Neath the eyes of a million stars,

For they all had come in their vestments gay,