ALAS! THE MUSE.
Mrs Floodyer: “Oh, Mr Batts, how I enjoyed your lovely volume of poems!” Batts: “You’re very kind, indeed; do you like the Alcaic metre?” Mrs Floodyer: “Alcaic metre? Oh, 1 see: you want to change the subject. Modesty is the crown of genius. But really I cannot say; does it save much gas?”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1900, Page 856
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56ALAS! THE MUSE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1900, Page 856
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