Æsthetic-like, and limp, and free—

Now ain’t they utterly too-too,

Them flymy little bits o’ Blue?

W. E. Henley.


In Wain!

(A Villanelle of Vexations. By B * * * y P * * g.)

Addressed to all true Jingoes.

In wain would I the British Lion wake!

In wain I’d rouge the brute to wilent springing;