- An Idyl Of The Period. In Two Parts
PART ONE.
"Come right in. How are you, Fred?
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- Auto-da-fe
(HE EXPLAINS.)
Oh, just burning up some old papers,
They do make a good deal of smoke:
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- Les Enfants Perdus
What has become of the children all?
How have the darlings vanished?
Fashion's pied piper, with magical air,
Has wooed them away, with their flaxen hair
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- Matinal Musings
Ten o'clock! Well, I'm sure I can't help it!
I'm up go away from the door!
Now, children, I'll speak to your mother
If you pound there like that any more.
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- After The German. A Sophomore Soliloquy
Blackboard, with ruler and rubber before me,
Chalk loosely held in my hand,
Sun-gilded motes in the air all around me,
Listlessly dreaming I stand.
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