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It little profits that an idle man	A
On this worn arch in sight of wasted halls	B
I mope a solitary pelican	C
And glower and glower for ever on Saint Paul's	B
Will no soft hearted mortal be so very	D
Obliging as to row me o'er the ferry	D
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Here three and thirty years I've stood estranged	E
A dream of ruin all around me stretching	F
And centuries shall see me yet unchanged	E
Ever in act to sketch but nothing sketching	F
Mutely immutable constrain'dly still	G
With nought to stand against except my will	G
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A wondrous lot is mine ye bide your doom	H
Till men say Vixit mine begins ere birth	I
A lonely ghost projected from the womb	H
Of Time to come I linger now on earth	I
Ye vertebrates date back while I commence	J
My weary present in the future tense	J
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A weird eidolon a born paradox	K
A fixture framed of incorporeal particles	L
Yet dropped in many an Editorial box	K
Blown thence in squibs or hurled in Leading Articles	L
A Nomad though my permanent address is	M
In Volume Second of Macaulay's Essays	N
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I was not born of woman see Macduff	O
Nor stare to hear my lore so far extends	P
The sire who bore me trafficked in such stuff	O
And had his Shakespeare at his finger ends	P
The quitch is in the blood such blood as ghost has	Q
I know as much as he at least almost as	Q
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I was not born of woman gave no pain	R
Through no preliminary stage did pass	S
But sprang a Pallas from Macaulay's brain	R
Though not like her with spear and helm of brass	S
My spear a pencil of Queensland plumbago	F
My casque a felt one latest from Otago	F
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And therein lies the sting of all I bear	T
That after brooding ages on mine arch	U
And treasuring what the centuries prepare	T
And noting what ye proudly term the March	U
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Of Progress and assimilating all	V
The long result of Time see Locksley hall	V
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That after seeing all that mortal can	A
That after learning all that man can learn	W
This forecast shade already more than man	A
Must go and be a baby in its turn	W
I've got to go and be a little kid	X
When old perhaps as Cheops' Pyramid	X
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I've got to wear a little purfled cap	Y
Pass through perchance some brutal mode of swaddling	F
To gather tissue from a bowl of pap	Y
To undergo no end of molly coddling	F
To be brought up by hand or worse and worse	Z
To be a parasite upon a nurse	Z
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And in due course this cultured soul of mine	A2
Must learn its Catechism by easy stages	B2
And sundry rods shall yet be steeped in brine	A2
To stimulate the heir of all the ages	B2
And men shall file away with prose and rhyme	C2
To sharpen me the foremost file of time	C2
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I pray you purist faint not at the word	D2
For in the distant day whereof I speak	F
Your chastened phrases shall be held absurd	D2
What you call slang shall be our Attic Greek	F
And every man be file or bloke or cove	E2
And bloods make oath by Gum instead of Jove	E2
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For standing here immovable and dumb	F2
An arch Stylites birth not death awaiting	F
Faint inklings reach me of the time to come	F2
Beneath the loud To day reverberating	F
And I could tell of things so strange and wild	G2
Your wisest don would feel himself a child	G2
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Could show up many a now belauded quackery	D
Could play the deuce with half your saints and sages	M
Could settle for you whether Boz or Thackeray	D
Shall be the admiration of the ages	B2
And whether Morris Swinburne and Rossetti	D
Shall number with the great or with the petty	D
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Could tell how empire shall have changed its place	H2
But must not blow although an Australasian	A2
Could tell you which shall be the ruling race	H2
But may not shock the orthodox Caucasian	A2
Nor dare your curiosity assuage	I2
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Lest I should make half castes become the rage	I2
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Could tell you quite a fairy tale of science	J2
And wonders in Political Economy	D
That set your time worn statutes at defiance	J2
And hold them out of date as Deuteronomy	D
The darky boss the trashy white a brudder	D
Man at the prow and woman at the rudder	D
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How all shall go by natural selection	A2
No man allowed to live unless good looking	F
How love shall vent itself in vivisection	A2
And charms be rated subsequent to cooking	F
How girls instead of knitting sofa covers	K2
Shall spend their leisure in tattooing lovers	K2
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And how magnetic belts with dazzling hues	L2
Shall draw unwilling arms around the waist	M2
How damsels to enhance their lips shall use	N2
Odyllic force condensed into a paste	M2
And woo the bashful from his slow simplicity	D
With cakes of desiccated electricity	D
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How education as a general rule	O2
Shall be conducted by familiar spirits	P2
How circles shall be formed in every school	O2
And rappings shall reward superior merits	Q2
And how the spectroscope applied to spectres	Q2
Shall re enact all history on reflectors	Q2
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And how your vaunted patents and inventions	Q2
Shall be for playthings to the great hereafter	D
And all your philosophical pretensions	Q2
Be themes of inextinguishable laughter	D
Your engineering form for future times	Q2
The droll machinery of pantomimes	Q2
Your steam your boast What is it but a vapour	D
Or what more fleeting simile will do	R2
'Twill be effete as let me see what paper	D
Eureka say the Saturday Review	R2
Whose name indeed shall live simply because	Q2
These lines give token such a paper was	Q2
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For there be those whose memory shall rot	S2
And pass and be as it had never been	A2
Of such my famed progenitor's is not	S2
Valhalla holds him in the high serene	A2
My Prospero Oh may he prosper where he is	Q2
Untouched by that unenviable caries	Q2
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For though I dumbly execrate the day	T2
When first he chained me here a lorn eidolon	A2
To be a literary popinjay	I2
And market stock for every sucking Solon	A2
Be Hyperborean calm his long reward	U2
I'm proud of him you know he was a lord	U2
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Mundanes I say Good bye as on ye march	U
I fain would shake your hands but can't get at you	R2
My prison ruin waiting in the arch	U
As in the marble waits the future statue	R2
I hate you London bridge And if Saint Paul is	Q2
A name I loathe the fault is Lord Macaulay's	Q2
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Witlings a word bring me no more to book	F
And take not any more my name in vain	A2
Cast if ye will one final loving look	F
As upon one ye ne'er shall see again	A2
Behold me let it be the last occasion	A2
Served up in verses for The Australasian	A2
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Macaulay's New Zealander dates from	D

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