Even today your royal head may fall—

I think I will not hang myself to-day.

A BALLADE OF AN ANTI-PURITAN

They spoke of Progress spiring round,

Of Light and Mrs. Humphry Ward—

It is not true to say I frowned,

Or ran about the room and roared;

I might have simply sat and snored—

I rose politely in the club

And said, “I feel a little bored;