...willingly wotship at dinner The Sirens of Spri.ig. Take endive— like love it is bitter; Take bett— for like love it is red ! Crisp leaf of the lettuce...glitter, And cress from the rivulet's bed : Anchovies, fosm-horn, like the lady \v ,".•' 1 ' .i> 11 y has mtdtiened this bard ; And olives, from groves...

...willingly worship at dinner The Sirens of Spring. Take endive...like love it is bitter ; Take beet...for like love it is red : Crisp leaf of the lettuce shall...bard ; And olives, from groves that are shady; And eggs...boil 'em hard. EUELPIDES. If Aphrodite has maddened that young bard, There's method in his madness...

...if no sinner, My Muse has a marvellous wing, And I willingly worship at dinner The Sirens of Spring. Take endive . . . like love it is bitter ; Take beet...groves that are shady ; And eggs . . . boil 'em hard. EUELPIDES. If Aphrodite has maddened that young bard, There's method in his madness and his salad,...

...if no sinner, My muse has a marvellous wing, And I willingly worship at dinner The sirens of spring. Take endive — like love it is bitter, Take beet...groves that are shady ; And eggs — boil 'em hard. In Collins's volume of miscellaneous Poems will be found several other examples of his persiflage —...

...passages. Here, for example, is Mortimer Collins's quizzical reproduction of a truly Swinburnian metre: — Take endive — like love, it is bitter ; Take beet...groves that are shady ; And eggs— boil 'em hard. Here, again, is Lewis Carroll's adaptation of a metre no less Swinburnian: — And I whispered, " I...

...passages. Here, for example, is Mortimer Collins's quizzical reproduction of a truly Swinburnian metre: — Take endive — like love, it is bitter ; Take beet...olives, from groves that are shady ; And eggs — boil "cm hard. Here, again, is Lewis Carroll's adaptation of a metre no less Swinburnian: — And I whispered,...

...if no sinner, My muse has a marvellous wing, And I willingly worship at dinner The sirens of spring. Take endive — like love it is bitter, Take beet...groves that are shady, And eggs — boil 'em hard." The " Shootover Papers," by members of the Oxford University, contains this parody, written upon the...

...if no sinner, My Muse has a marvellous wing, And I willingly worship at dinner The Sirens of Spring. Take endive — like love it is bitter ; Take beet...groves that are shady ; And eggs — boil "em hard." BEARD. (Browning.) WAITRESS, with eyes so marvellous black, And the blackest possible lustrous gay...

...diverting travestie of the Swinburnian manner of which I have already quoted a scrap ? Said he — ' Take endive — like love, it is bitter ; Take beet...groves that are shady ; And eggs — boil 'em hard.' Then there is the American writer's parallel between salad and conversation, showing that the lettuce...

...have already quoted a scrap ? Said he— ' Take endive—like love, it is bitter ; Take beet—for, like love, it is red ; Crisp leaf of the lettuce shall...bard ; And olives, from groves that are shady; And eggs—boil 'em hard.' Then there is the American writer's parallel between salad and conversation,...