Baron de Book-Worms.
AIRS RESUMPTIVE.
V.—Lilith Libifera.
(After Rossetti.)
PORTRAIT OF
THE ARTIST
IN BED-LAM
PUZZLE—
TO FIND HIM
Under a canopy dark-hued as—well, Consult the Bilious Book, page 51— Lies pallid Whiskersley's presentment, done By Whiskersley's own weird unearthly spell. His is that Lady known as Jezebel Or Lilith, Eden's woman-scorpion, Libifera, that is, that takes the bun, Borgia, Vivien, Cussed Damosel. Hers are the bulging lips that fairly break The pumpkin's heart; and hers the eyes that shame The wanton ape that culls the cocoa-nuts. Even such the yellow-bellied toads that slake Nocturnally their amorous-ardent flame In the wan waste of weary water-butts.
An Ecclesiastical Hibernian-Iberian Meddle and Muddle.—Lord Halifax writes to the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo to protest against the appointment of an Anglo-Iberian bishop to Spain made by the Archbishop of Dublin & Co.; and his English Eminence Cardinal Vaughan writes to Spanish Eminence to protest against the protest of Lord Halifax. Of which the sum is that all the parties to the case are evidently, for the time being, Protestants! [206]