But the wind that swells, the wave that follows, none shall stay:
Spread no more of sail for shipwreck: out, and clear the way!
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The Pall Mall Gazette. August 19, 1884.
Rail Away!
(Written by an aspiring young poet of the Neo-Billingsgate School in humble imitation of the “Clear the Way!” contributed by Mr. Swinburne to a recent number of the Pall Mall Gazette.)
Rail away, my budding bardlets! This hysteric day
Shrieking lives so shrieking answers,—Journals say not nay;
Long enough has reason held you: up and rail away!
Slang and slate, revile and bludgeon with assurance bold!