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As I was walking down the street	A
A week ago	B
Near Henderson's I chanced to meet	A
A man I know	B
	-
His name is Alexander Bell	C
His home Dundee	D
I do not know him quite so well	C
As he knows me	D
	-
He gave my hand a hearty shake	E
Discussed the weather	F
And then proposed that we should take	E
A stroll together	F
	-
Down College Street we took our way	G
And there we met	H
The beautiful Miss Mary Gray	G
That arch coquette	H
Who stole last spring my heart away	G
And has it yet	H
	-
That smile with which my bow she greets	I
Would it were fonder	F
Or else less fond since she its sweets	I
On all must squander	F
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Thus when I meet her in the streets	I
I sadly ponder	F
And after her as she retreats	I
My thoughts will wander	F
	-
And so I listened with an air	J
Of inattention	K
While Bell described a folding chair	J
Of his invention	K
	-
And when we reached the Swilcan Burn	L
'It looks like rain '	-
Said I 'and we had better turn '	-
'Twas all in vain	M
	-
For Bell was weather wise and knew	N
The signs aerial	O
He bade me note the strip of blue	N
Above the Imperial	O
	-
Also another patch of sky	P
South west by south	Q
Which meant that we might journey dry	P
To Eden's mouth	Q
	-
He was a man with information	K
On many topics	R
He talked about the exploration	K
Of Poles and Tropics	R
	-
The scene in Parliament last night	H
Sir William's letter	F
'And do you like the electric light	H
Or gas lamps better '	-
	-
The strike among the dust heap pickers	S
He said was over	F
And had I read about the liquors	S
Just seized at Dover	F
	-
Or the unhappy printer lad	H
At Rothesay drowned	H
Or the Italian ironclad	H
That ran aground	H
	-
He told me stories lately come	T
Of town society	H
Some slightly tinged with truth and some	T
With impropriety	H
	-
He spoke of duelling in France	U
Then lightly glanced at	H
Mrs Mackenzie's monster dance	U
Which he had danced at	H
	-
So he ran on till by and by	P
A silence came	V
For which I greatly fear that I	P
Was most to blame	V
	-
Then neither of us spoke a word	H
For quite a minute	H
When presently a thought occurred	H
With promise in it	H
	-
'How did you like the Shakespeare play	G
The students read	H
By this the Eden like a bay	G
Before us spread	H
	-
Near Eden many softer plots	W
Of sand there be	H
Our feet like Pharaoh's chariots	X
Drave heavily	H
	-
And ere an answer I could frame	V
He said that Irving	Y
Of his extraordinary fame	V
Was undeserving	Y
	-
And for his part he thought more highly	H
Of Ellen Terry	H
Although he knew a girl named Riley	H
At Broughty Ferry	H
Who might be if she only chose	Z
As great a star	A2
She had a part in the tableaux	B
At the bazaar	A2
	-
If I had said but little yet	H
I now said less	B2
And smoked a home made cigarette	H
In mute distress	B2
	-
The smoke into his face was blown	C2
By the wind's action	K
And this afforded me I own	C2
Some satisfaction	K
	-
But still his tongue received no check	D2
Till coming home	E2
We stood beside the ancient wreck	D2
And watched the foam	E2
	-
Wash in among the timbers now	F2
Sunk deep in sand	H
Though I can well remember how	F2
I used to stand	H
	-
On windy days and hold my hat	H
And idly turn	L
To read 'Lovise Frederikstad'	H
Upon her stern	L
	-
Her stern long since was buried quite	H
And soon no trace	G2
The absorbing sand will leave in sight	H
To mark her place	G2
	-
This reverie was not permitted	H
To last too long	H2
Bell's mind had left the stage and flitted	H
To fields of song	H2
	-
And now he spoke of Marmion	K
And Lewis Morris	I2
The former he at school had done	K
Along with Horace	I2
	-
His maiden aunts no longer young	J2
But learned ladies	K2
Had lately sent him Songs Unsung	J2
Epic of Hades	K2
	-
Gycia and Gwen He thought them fine	L2
Not like that Browning	Y
Of whom he would not read a line	L2
He told me frowning	Y
	-
Talking of Horace very clever	F
Beyond a doubt	H
But what the Satires meant he never	F
Yet could make out	H
	-
I said I relished Satire Nine	L2
Of the First Book	M2
But he had skipped to the divine	L2
Eliza Cook	M2
	-
He took occasion to declare	J
In tones devoted	H
How much he loved her old Arm chair	J
Which now he quoted	H
	-
And other poets he reviewed	H
Some two or three	H
Till having touched on Thomas Hood	H
He turned to me	H
	-
'Have you been stringing any rhymes	N2
Of late ' he said	H
I could not lie but several times	N2
I shook my head	H
	-
The last straw to the earth will bow	F2
The overloaded camel	O
And surely I resembled now	F2
That ill used mammal	O
	-
See how a thankless world regards	O2
The gifted choir	F
Of minstrels singers poets bards	O2
Who sweep the lyre	P2
	-
This is the recompense we meet	H
In our vocation	K
We bear the burden and the heat	H
Of inspiration	K
	-
The beauties of the earth we sing	Y
In glowing numbers	O2
And to the 'reading public' bring	Y
Post prandial slumbers	O2
	-
We save from Mammon's gross dominion	K
These sordid times	O2
And all this in the world's opinion	K
Is 'stringing rhymes '	-
	-
It is as if a man should say	O2
In accents mild	H
'Have you been stringing beads to day	O2
My gentle child '	-
	-
Yet even children fond of singing	Y
Will pay off scores	O2
And I to day at least am stringing	Y
Not beads but bores	O2
	-
And now the sands were left behind	H
The Club house past	H
I wondered Can I hope to find	H
Escape at last	H
	-
Or must I take him home to tea	H
And bear his chatter	F
Until the last train to Dundee	H
Shall solve the matter	F
	-
But while I shuddered at the thought	H
And planned resistance	O2
My conquering Alexander caught	H
Sight in the distance	O2
	-
Of two young ladies one of whom	Q2
Is his ambition	K
And so with somewhat heightened bloom	Q2
He asked permission	K
	-
To say good bye to me and follow	B
I freely gave it	H
And wished him all success	O2
Apollo Sic me servavit	H