for freedom,
I'll jackal to no autocrat;
But rogues with hands as red as Edom,
Nihilist snake, Anarchist rat,
I'd crush, and crime's curst league determine.
I have no sympathy with vermin.
Doors open, welcome hospitable
For all, unchallenged, is my style;
But trust not to the fatuous fable
That _Caliban_'s free of my isle
With prosperous _Prospero's_ free consent.
Such lies mad autocrats invent.
Such for some centuries they've been telling,
Crime, like an asp, I'd gladly crush
Upon the threshold of my dwelling,
But shall not join a purblind rush
Of panic-stricken fools to play
The oppressor's game, for the spy's pay!
But you, foul, furtive desperadoes,
Who, frightened now by those you'd fright,
Would fain slink off among the shadows,
To plot out further deeds of night,
Our isle's immunity you boast!--
You're reckoning without your host.
I'll keep my eye on you; my Juries
I think you'll find it hard to scare;
_We_ worship no Anarchic furies,
For menace are not wont to care,
Here red-caught Crime in vain advances
"Extenuating Circumstances!"
* * * * *
COUPLET BY A CYNIC.
(After reading certain Press Comments on the Picture Show.)
Philistine Art may stand all critic shocks
Whilst it gives Private Views--of Pretty Frocks!
* * * * *
THE WORLD ON WHEELS.
MR. STEVENS, the American gentleman who rode round the world on a
bicycle, says, "The bicycle is now recognised as a new social force."
Possibly. But certain writers to the _Times_ on "The Tyranny of the
Road," seem to prove that it is also a new _anti_-social force, when
it frightens horses and upsets pedestrians. Adapting an old proverb,
we may say, "Set a cad on a cycle and he'll ride"--well, all over
the road, and likely enough over old ladies into the bargain. Whilst
welcoming the latest locomotive development, we must not allow the
"new social force" to de
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