Cobwebs from a Library Corner

by John Kendrick Bangs

Of Horace, Edison, and Lamb;

Of Keats and Washington,

Gérôme and blest Omar Khayyám,

And R. L. Stevenson;

Of Kipling and the Bard of Thrums,

And Bonaparte the great—

If I were these, I’d snap my thumbs

Derisively at Fate.

A COMMON FAVORITE

Charles Lamb is good, and so is Thackeray,