KINGS FROM THE EAST.
Reading edition
Cities of wonderment, Pink as the morn, There, of the sunrise sent, Reigned the Sun-Born; From the high heaven's gate, Sprung from the flame, Ere Nineveh was great, Ere Thebes a name! Emeralds, milky pearls Plucked from blue seas, Footfall of silken girls— Such for their ease; Shimmer and silken sheen, Jewel and maid— These but the damascene Chasing the blade! For on a royal day Lost in the years Chose they the Happy Way— The way of spears; Ere Rome's first bastionings Climbed from the sods In the old East were kings Warring with gods. Lo, through the eastern sky Crimson is drawn, Kings in their panoply Ride with the dawn; Sprung from high heaven's gate, Sprung from the flame, Ere Nineveh was great, Ere Thebes a name!
The Hohenzollern Stiggins.
"'Oh, my young friend,' said Mr. Stiggins, 'here's a sorrowful affliction.... It makes a vessel's heart bleed.'
Mr. Weller was overheard to murmur something about making a vessel's nose bleed."
Pickwick Papers.
A New Version.
When French joined French Then was the tug of war.
Motto for the War.
England Means "Business—As Usual."
"'Who that England know who only England knows.' We are not certain of the precise verbality, but thus the poet sang."
"Leader," B. E. Africa.
The "precise verbality" is merely a private trouble of the poets.
From an official notification in The Shanghai Municipal Gazette:—
"Where mosquitoes cannot be exterminated by abolishing stagnant water or by the use of kerosine oil, or by reporting their presence to the Health Officer, the mosquito net should be carefully used."
Elderly bald Gentleman (to mosquito): "Now I've warned you once; and if you sting me again I shall report you to the Health Officer."