THE AGE WISDOM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 15

THE AGE WISDOM.

.• y ■ X- r ' v.-. ~. " Ho!■ pretty pagoOTith'itho;'dimpled oliin, . - That never hamxownv thejßarber's\ shear, ;• I . " AlHyour, wish is woman to "win,' : \ This jis . the way ,that ; boys .begin— ■, Wait-till.yotr"Kmje;.to■:Forty Year/ ' - ; ; Cnrly gold locks,.cover:'foolish;'brains, :■ .'Xiiiiinjf nud ,coOingfis';all:yo'Ur/ clieeri': " v 'Sighing iiiid.'sinring'.Bf-<lttldiilgliflfralni i ' ,; ' r Under -/• Wait till you coino to Forty- Year. Forty times • over. let Michaelmas pass, V : r .Grizzling hair the brain dofcli clca>- ' Tlicn you'.know a boy is an. ass, , Tlien .you know the: worth of a lass, . .;; Once yori* have como. to Forty Year. Pledge nwtround, I bid yo declare, All coodffellows v/hoso beards nre.'grey. Did mf ytig; fairest Of."tlio' fail'V , ■ Comrim.BMW 'and;:w6arisome 'ero' Evefia igjjnth was pass d away? ' '' W , : . V ; i The-reddefi. lips that ever have-kissed, ! , ' ; The brightest oyps,; that', ever have shone, . •Mny : pray 'and whispeiv and ; we 1 not list, 1 ■ Or-look away, and never'be. ' Ere»yet ever a .inontJP f v: dead, God rest her bier, ■ • IT.owSI loved her twenty years.,syne! , '. married, .but, I sit here. Alone jtnd-merry at .Forty Year, Lipping my noso in the Gascon wine. .' v- ■■•—William/Makepeace Thackeray.'

■ ; Woul!l,' it tnot lip possible ;to form n-ilder- • nesses of'undergrowth; in Hyde Park, and. tho other parks, and so, perhaps, to induce sorao of the warblers to come .to London? . Iniagino one's feelings on .henring" a nightingale burst - into song in Kensington .GardensH- CountrySide." iTlio Conservatism of tho Englishman is . gloomy ,and even terrifying.- It is necessary to livo in England in order to realise it ; ftllly. Its lovo of tradition and :of old fashions :is incredible. Politically, it may : possibly bo a guarantee of solidity, but it spoils, death to art in all its forms.—"Berliner Tageblatt," Berlifi.