Volume 146 — STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION BEFORE MATRIMONY.
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(A complaint has been voiced in the Press that uncommon wedding presents are getting much too common.)
We fixed our hymeneal day, Bespoke our nuptial cates And summoned to the solemn fray The necessary glum array Of kin and intimates. And the more part in their degree Gave gladly gifts of pride, Tall silver ships, complete with sea, And birds of aureate filigree, Pearl-winged and opal-eyed. Sheffield they gave, a grievous load, And Chelsea, flower'd and spruce, And antique thingummies in spode; The only thing that none bestowed Was anything of use. Fled is the hope we built too soon Of some sub-tropic trek; Farewell, O azure honeymoon, The dull but necessary spoon Claims the paternal cheque.
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"When the earth trembled For six days at great expense." The longest earthquake on record.
(The first lord of the admiralty calls in a new element to redress the balance of the old.)
