Or cast your virtues by, sir,
And take the darker side,
Be either you or I, sir,
Be Jekyll, please, or Hyde.
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In October 1885 the English Illustrated Magazine published a short poem by Mr. Swinburne, which the Editor of the Weekly Dispatch shortly afterwards reprinted, in his competition column, and invited Parodies upon it:—
THE INTERPRETERS.
Days dawn on us that make amends for many
Sometimes,
When heaven and earth seem sweeter even than any