The maiden's monosyllabic reply to a polysyllabic proposal,
The fundamental note of the last trump, which is presumably D natural;
All of these are sounds to rejoice in, yea to let your ribs re-echo with.
But better than all of them is the absolutely last chord of the apparently inexhaustible pianoforte player.
J. K. Stephen.
THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE
SAID a poet to a woodlouse, "Thou art certainly my brother;
I discern in thee the markings of the fingers of the Whole;
And I recognize, in spite of all the terrene smut and smother,
In the colors shaded off thee, the suggestions of a soul.