Volume 107 — AIRS RESUMPTIVE.
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I.—The Garden of Sloth.
T the Court of the Earl, by the meeting of ways, Man planted a garden, a garden that pays; In the thick of the crowd, where they tread on your corn, It is there that a singular plant has been born. Hot days of desire and cool nights of disgust, They are mine when its bud keeps refusing to bust. O, Wheel of my weal! I am waiting forlorn, I am waiting, I say, with a crush on my corn. In the "Garden of London" where night-lights are spread, I watch Living Pictures, as old as the dead; While a Tow-er Gigantic stands gruesome and glum, By the shadow of Shows that are certain to come. Will they shoot as I shoot on sixpenny slides? Will they want as I want rotatory rides? O, plant of a plant! I would barter my skin For the chance of Ixion his regular spin!
By Our Schoolboy.
Q. (α) Explain the allusion "Quorum Pars." (β) Give reference.
R. "Quorum" is a bench of magistrates who must be all Fathers of Families, or Pa's. Hence the expression (which is a kind of Latin pun) "Quorum Pars." (β) The references are numerous, and all highly respectable.