It was not that they failed, each one, to try It was rather that each would seem, instead, His greeting hands to the further side. And our gladdest words rang strange and cold, So they waned and waned, these visits of mine, Till I married the heiress, ending here. For if caste approves the cigars and wine, She must frown perforce upon pipes and beer. And now 'tis years since I saw these men, For I keep strict watch on the world of art, Though he greatly toiled, has toiled in vain. And Fred, for all he may sparkle bright And dreamy Frank must be dreaming still, And I, the fourth in that old queer throng, I alone have the laurelled brows! Well, and what has it all been worth? I would cast, and gladly, from this gray head Its crown, to regain one sweet lost year With artist George, with splenetic Fred, With dreamy Frank, with the pipes and beer? Capen, Elmer Hewitt, The Rev- Hall, Arthur Dudley. Chidwick, John P., The Rev- Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Keats, John. Kemble, Frances Anne. Landor, Walter Savage. Lincoln, Abraham. Poe, Edgar Allan. Scott, Sir Walter. Seward, William H. Shakspere, William. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Sherwood, M. E. W. Sill, Edward Rowland. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Long, John D. Lover, Samuel. Lowell, James Russell. Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord. MacNally, Leonard. Mansfield, Richard. Marlowe, Christopher. Maupassant, Guy de. Sophocles. Southey, Robert. Spectator, The. Stedman, Edmund Clarence. Stoddard, Richard Henry. Sumner, Charles. Mayhew, Jonathan, The Rever- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. |