Is gone, and now the Supper Guest
Turns from that ancient door.
He went like one who has been stunned,
And is of sense unsound,
They haunt his dreams, those crowds of Blues
All bowing, bowing round.
Gleanings from “The Blue.” 1881.
The Blue was a small journal published by, and for, the Blue-coat School Boys, at Christ’s Hospital, London.
The Rime of the Potent Minister.