If you have only covered so much space
With lines as bad as these, or rather worse,
Why then we’ll take your place,
And not too soon—too soon.
The Weekly Echo, April 25, 1885.
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A Laurel.
You—you!—and neither He nor She nor It,
But if; if but, you fail to understand,
Oh! shaker of this tiny English land,