ROUGH ON THE LAUREATE
Poet Laureate Austin has written his annual spring poem, which appears in the New York 'lndependent' under the title of 'The Coming of tho Daffodils.' We shall give ourselves the pleasure of quoting a stanza:
The madcap lambs round their staider dauvAre skipping as one time they did, And, proud of the cheat, will the cuckoo repeat s Soon the tale of the nest invaded. The swain and his sweet in the love-lanes • meet And fondle and face each other, Till he folds her charms in his world-wide arms, With kisses that blind and. smother. We sincerely trust the Laureate has no intention of appropriating to himself the field that has so long been exclusively occupied by Efia Wheeler Wilcox. Also, as a guarantee of good faith, we offer as a companion piece to the stanza just quoted the following lines
The ma pig roots, while. her offspring §coots
In response to her cheerful grunting, j While the rooster stands holding out his j hands ' For the worm that the hen is hunting; The sweet and her swain, caught out in the rain,
Perceiving a distant shelter, Forget the love they've been babbling of, And go for it helter-skelter. —Chicago ' Record Herald.'
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Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 9
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206ROUGH ON THE LAUREATE Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 9
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