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worshipful assemblage, 3 with our king’s house

 

 

 

1 Startnaked and bonedstiff. We vivvy soddy. All be dood.

 

 

2 When you dreamt that you’d wealth in marble arch do you ever think

 

of

 

pool beg slowe.

 

3 Porphyrious Olbion, redcoatliar, we were always wholly rose marines

 

on our side every time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In snowdrop,

of stone, belgroved of mulbrey, the still that

 

 

trou-de-dentelle,

was mill and Kloster that was Yeomansland,

 

flesh and helio-

the ghastcold tombshape of the quick fore-

 

trope.

gone on, the loftleaved elm Lefanunian above-

 

Here’s our dozen

mansioned, each, every, all is for the retro-

 

cousins from the

spectioner. Skole! Agus skole igen! 1 Sweet-

 

starves on tripes.

some auburn, cometh up as a selfreizing flower,

 

 

that fragolance of the fraisey beds: the phoenix,

 

 

his pyre, is still flaming away with trueprat-

 

 

tight spirit: the wren his nest is niedelig as the

 

 

turrises of the sabines are televisible. Here are

 

 

the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler

 

 

and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her

 

 

chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose,

 

 

arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner-

 

 

ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of

 

 

ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe,

 

 

are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you

 

 

pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of

 

 

Angoisse. All out of two barreny old perishers,

 

 

Tytonyhands and Vlossyhair, a kilolitre in

 

 

metromyriams. Presepeprosapia, the parent

 

 

bole. Wone tabard, wine tap and warm tavern 5

 

 

and, by ribbon development, from contact

 

 

bridge to lease lapse, only two millium two

 

 

humbered and eighty thausig nine humbered

 

 

and sixty radiolumin lines to the wustworts of

 

 

a Finntown’s generous poet’s office. Distorted

 

 

mirage, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the

 

 

1 Now a muss wash the little face.

 

 

2 A
viking vernacular expression still used in the Summerhill district

 

for a

 

jerryhatted man of forty who puts two fingers into his boiling soupplate

 

and

 

licks them in turn to find out if there is enough mushroom catsup in the

 

mutton broth.

 

3 H’dk’fs’h’p’y.

 

4 Googlaa pluplu.

 

5 Tomley. The grown man. A butcher szewched him the bloughs and

 

braches. I’m chory to see P. Shuter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bet you fippence,

boxomeness of the bedelias 1 makes hobby-

PREAUSTERIC

 

anythesious,

hodge happy in his hole. 2 The store and

MAN AND HIS

 

there’s no pug-

charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne.-Riva-

PURSUIT OF

 

gatory, are yous

pool? Hod a brieck on it! But its piers eerie,

PAN-

 

game?

its span spooky, its toll but a till, its parapets

HYSTERIC

 

 

all peripateting. D’Oblong’s by his by. Which

WOMAN.

 

 

we all pass. Tons. In our snoo. Znore. While

 

 

 

we hickerwards the thicker. Schein. Schore.

 

 

 

Which assoars us from the murk of the mythe-

 

 

 

lated in the barrabelowther, bedevere butlered

 

 

 

table round, past Morningtop’s necessity and

 

 

 

Harington’s invention, to the clarience of the

 

 

 

childlight in the studiorium upsturts. Here

 

 

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