And peace and prosperity brings
So glory to that in the highest,
The healer and mender of things.
F.A.C.
The St. Stephen’s Review, May 28, 1887.
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In Rhymes à la Mode, by Mr. Andrew Lang (Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1883), there are also two good parodies of Swinburne. In one, the “Palace of Bric-à-Brac,” the exquisite diction and appropriate rhythm of the “Garden of Proserpine,” are most amusingly caricatured:—
“Here, where old Nankin glitters,
Here, where men’s tumult seems
As faint as feeble twitters