Mark:    So, Maurice, you sail to-morrow, you say?    And you may or may not return?    Be sociable, man! for once in a way,    Unless you�re too old to learn.    The…

    All is over! fleet career,    Dash of greyhound slipping thongs,    Flight of falcon, bound of deer,    Mad hoof-thunder in our rear,    Cold air rushing up our lungs,    Din of many…

    On the fields of Col�raine there�ll be labour in vain    Before the Great Western is ended,    The nags will have toil�d, and the silks will be soil�d,    And…

   PLATE I    Rixa super mero     They sat by their wine in the tavern that night,    But not in good fellowship true:    The Rhenish was strong and the Burgundy…

    An open country.    LAURENCE RABY and FORREST, BRIAN AYLMER and PRESCOT.     Forrest:    I�ve won the two tosses from Prescot;    Now hear me, and hearken and heed,    And pull that…

The Philosophy of a Feast     Make merry, comrades, eat and drink    (The sunlight flickers on the sea),    The garlands gleam, the glasses clink,    The grape juice mantles fair…

   Podas Okus    Am I waking? Was I sleeping?    Dearest, are you watching yet?    Traces on your cheeks of weeping    Glitter, ’tis in vain you fret;    Drifting ever! drifting onward!    In the…

   The maiden sat by the river side    (The rippling water murmurs by),    And sadly into the clear blue tide    The salt tear fell from her clear blue eye.    ��Tis…

    Two years ago I was thinking    On the changes that years bring forth;    Now I stand where I then stood drinking    The gust and the salt sea froth;    And…

�Nec propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.�     Though the pitcher that goes to the sparkling rill    Too oft gets broken at last,    There are scores of others its…