The Worship of Gaud; PT. 2 - Random Arrows (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: My feet they went a gipsying, Long, long ago; The call that lures the birds to sing And spurs the flowers to blow, It found me blind in city night, It drew me where the sun shone bright, Bewitched me with a new delight, Long, long ago My heart it went a gipsying, Long, long ago; From Youth's gay pleasure-cage took wing To bask where daisies grow; In love of lore it bent its eye, Each kiss repaid with but a sigh, And missed the wooings of the sky, Long, long ago My pride it went a gipsying, Long, long ago; Of envied realms I would be King And royal graces show; Alas I scarce myself can rule, I shine best as my own Court Fool The very part I mocked at school, Long, long ago My fancies went a gipsying, Long, long ago; Full sure the after-years would bring The joys that came so slow; They did not see the cup of tears 0 'ershadowing the cup that cheers; How oft those seem the happiest years, Long, long ago My Spirit went a gipsying, Long, long ago; It made the hills and valleys ring With gladness at its glow; This hour it droopsbut not decays, It scorns the world's grim-hearted ways, Yet smiles at Fate, as in the days Long, long ago FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE BEST SELLEB, ETC. He scans the earth, the sea, the skies, To snatch each floating speck that flies Into the hapless public's eyes. On it he stamps with chuckling glee His great O, microscopic B; Then spreads it out and sets it free; Wafting it toward a tower where Such atoms they delight to snare, As littery brilliants rich and rare. The air-fish men who land the mite Inflate its greatness, and indite Paeans on how O'b can write. Such Wit such Wisdom old, yet new Profound High Toney charm all through And all so microscopic, too...