I never sigh to see gyps at my feet;

I make the butter fly, all in an hour,

Taking it home for my Saturday treat.

From Horace at Athens, by G. O. Trevelyan.


I’d be a Rothschild.

I’d be a Rothschild! immortal in story,

As the fellows who live by their stanzas and brains,

Having a heart drunk with visions of glory,

When fifty per cent, on my table remains;