Therefore I say that, toiling
With wild white roses' bloom--
No printers' vats a-boiling
Nor labour of the loom--
With fern and foxglove chalice
On tiny feet or wings
Titania's elves made sallies,
And that's how Lady Alice
Had on those lovely things.
EVOE.
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A HAPPY THOUGHT.
"When the blessing had been pronounced and the bridal pair were
kneeling at the altar Dame Nellie Melba, wearing a blue dress and
hat, crept from the side chapel to the choir and to the joy of the
audience sang the pathetic 'Ave Maria' that Desdemona sings in the
last act of Verdi's _Othello_ when she feels her predestined doom
approaching."--"_Evening Standard" on a Society wedding_.
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"Mr. Bottomley objects to By Jingo."
_Daily Paper_.
Yet in one or another of his "powerful" articles we seem to have seen
something like "Damn the Kaiser" and "To Hell with Hindenburg.
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