Then go, that he
May learn the fate of humbugs past,
Like him, and thee,—
To be, their transient splendours past—
Pitch’d into, and cut up at last.
Diogenes. February 1853.
The Æsthete to the Rose.
(By Wildgoose, after Waller.)
Go, flaunting Rose!
Then go, that he
May learn the fate of humbugs past,
Like him, and thee,—
To be, their transient splendours past—
Pitch’d into, and cut up at last.
Diogenes. February 1853.
The Æsthete to the Rose.
(By Wildgoose, after Waller.)
Go, flaunting Rose!