--Butler, Hudibras.
| Babel. | [32 T.J.] |
"In vain a fresher mould we seek,
Can all the varied phrases tell
What Babel's wandering children speak,
How thrushes sing or lilacs smell?"
--Holmes, To My Readers.
| Barabbas. | [276 L.J.] |
"Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour;
Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour,
And stabb'st the good."
--Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance.
| The Best till the Last. | [78 L.J.] |
"Perhaps like him of Cana in Holy Writ
Our Arthur kept his best until the last."
--Tennyson, The Holy Grail.