And the same I am free to maintain.

Oscar Wilde in a poetic fervour and a lily-like kimono, recited with tremulous intensity this masterpiece of his own:

Oh, Peter! Pumpkin-fed and proud,

Ah me! ah me!

(Sweet squashes, mother!)

Thy woe knells like a stricken cloud;

(Ah me; ah me!

Hurroo, Hurree!)

Lo! vanisht like an anguisht wraith;

Ah me! ah me!