... deserves a medallion That his Fancies and Quest were never suppressed But they ought to be writ in Italian. T is for terse Thomas Hardy, Whose works we with wonder regard. He Has written for years, but it somehow appears His moral convictions were tardy. ...

... specimen Is Tliomas Hardy nowadays? Is Rider Haggard pale? Is Minot Savage? Oscar Wilde? And Edward Everett Hale? Was Laurence Sterne? was Hermann Grimm? Was Edward Young? John Gay? Jonathan Swift? and old John Bright? And why was Thomas Gray Was Francis ...