“Hush, hush, thou little lass o’ mine;
It is a famous pantomime!
“And folk have praised the good lessee,
Who’s furnished us the fun.”
“But what’s the meaning of it all?”
Quoth Mat, his tiny son.
Said dad, “You’ll know it all in time;
But ’tis a famous pantomime.”
Orchis. (F. B. Doveton.)
Second Prize Poem.