'Where, with glasses ever clinking,
The gentles, ever drinking
To their lady loves in winking,
Cry aloud in jubilo;
And the jolly plump old president
Calls out to every resident,
And, when they answer, says he meant
To pledge in gaudio:
'Where the bells all day are ringing,
Where the world is ever singing,
And the roasted ducks fly winging
Their way into your mouth:
Where doors are never banging,
Where tongues are never clanging,
Where the peach and grape while hanging
Turn all sides toward the south:
'Where you find no foolish fussing,
Where you hear no oaths or cussing,
Where the babies need no nussing,
But in smiles or sleep are found:
Where they all own herds and flockses,
Where we get in no 'bad boxes,'
And where all the paradoxes
Are made straight, or else come round.
'O land so sweet and sunny!
O land of milk and money!
O land of peach and honey!
O land withouten peer!
O land of good society!
O land of great variety!
And genial sobriety,
Oh, would that thou wert here!
'Or that I were 'over yonder!'
Free to rest and free to ponder,
Free to print, and free to wander
'Mid the maidens short and tall!
On 'the other side of Jordan,'
Where all is tuned accordin'
'To your leastest wish, my lord,' in
Every matter, great and small!
'Knowest thou, O Editor Leland, of aught such, where the board is cheap? Answer, I pray ye, forthwith. Sono stancato.'
Not we. When we hear of it, O friend, we will take passage for two—by the first boat.
A FRIEND communicates to us the following:
'Plato, I think, Pythagoras, I guess, and Fo-hi, as I suppose—to judge from his eight Kua—believed that all knowledge was capable of mathematical representation.
'I don't know Miss Brown,' quoth a lady lately, in my hearing, 'she isn't in my Circle.'
'And I don't know her,' added Miss Black, 'for she doesn't live in my Square—and I never visit out of it.'
Dr. Holmes has, however, declared that a person may be known by Triangulating the descent from the grandfather down.
From all of which I should judge that to mathematically set forth the knowledge of any person, it would be necessary to draw that slightly paradoxical figure popularly described as a triangular square with round corners!