Miscellaneous Moods in Verse; One Hundred and One Poems with Illustrations (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: Welsh Rabbits In ancient times Welsh Rabbits were Both pliable and tough. No dainty Feeders ate them then But Men of the right Stuff, ? Men of the right Stuff, my Boys, Men who loved Good Cheer, Who ate until they'd had enough And washed all down with Beer. chapter{Section 4XII. When pleasant dreams by Horrors are replaced, And Love once warm seems cold, or fled in haste; When longed-for Sleep has fled, and longed-for Day With sluggard steps makes too prolonged delay; When Conscience summing up the long list of my Most conscientiously again the list begins; My mind in desperation cries, ?At last I have it And straightway lays the blame on?That Welsh- Rabbit. You'll be remembered, never fear By men on earth who loved good cheer, Shades of Welsh-Rabbits dead and gone Will nightly sit your grave upon, And lightly sit, ?for thin as air Shades make for Ghosts substantial fare; And also by the Moon's pale beam Foaming mugs of Ale will gleam. For know, ?that sure as Cheese is Cheese? What pleased on Earth, in Heaven will please. chapter{Section 5 Libations In the time of the Ancients So all poets sing, Wine they poured over altars Or any old thing; 'Twas a horrible waste Of good stuff I should say, So I always keep mine To moisten my clay. The preachers all tell us, ? But why I can't say? That the pleasantest things We had best throw away;? Among them Libations. To this I must say I prefer keeping mine To moisten my clay. In Libations be modest, For the Good Book doth say That old Father Noah, Too fond of display, Undismayed by one Deluge, Invented a way, Not only to moisten But deluge his clay. A Thirst is most precious. 'Tis the nature of Clay To become dry as dust And like dust blow away. How to quench,