A Parody Anthology

by Unknown

And how we "invoke, in the Gadara of our still closets,

The beautiful ghost of the Ideal, with the simple wand of the pen."

Listen how Maltravers and the orphan "forgot all but love,"

And how Devereux's family chaplain "made and unmade kings;"

How Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and a murderer,

Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the noblest of mankind;

So shalt thou live in a world peopled with heroes and master spirits

And if thou canst not realize the Ideal, thou shalt at least idealize the Real.

Charles S. Calverley.

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