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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". Part IXSource:
The Irish Monthly, Vol. 25, No. 293 (Nov., 1897), pp.
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CLAVIS ACROSTICA.
A KEY TO " DUBLIN ACROSTICS."
PART IX.
TI HE answer to No. 15 is " Lost Time " with the lights
levant,
oguni,storm, and Tefieriee. There is an allusion to
blacklegs
in Mr. Reeves' lines, and to lasciate ogni speroaza and to
Charles
Kingsley's best lyric. The answer to No. 16 is " Hard Cash "
with the lights havoc,
Alabama, recess, and dervish. As usual J. W. A's ingenuity
has
not been at fauilt, except that he is a little weak in negro
melodies
and not familiar with the lines,
"I come from Alabama,
With my banjo on my knee."
The initials affixed to the next two " Dublin Acrostics " show
that
the authors were the late Thomas Harris, Q.C., and Judge
O' He gan. No. 17.
In deserts wild I savage-clad appear
To guide a stately fleet I'd volunteer
My sightless eye-balls yearn for " Holy Light"
I gained my fame by visions of the night.
II.
I bleed and die amid unpitying cheers
Where I am uttered I'm received with jeers
With bears I grapple in perpetual war
My virgin burden I conveyed afar.
III.
I hate the Yankee, I despise "1 MIoseno,"
I loathe the Dutchman, and the Russian tcoo
I laugh at Paddy, Sawnvv hold in scorn,
For I to rule the Universe was born.
1. What Whigs and Tories both alike enjoy.
2. Treasure like gold, but not without alloy.
3. The home of mnisery I oft am found.
4. In Yankee speech I arn the common sound.
H.
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Sympathy of Thought. 609
No. 18.
Of common birth, of elements the same,
The first with more of fire and firmer frame
Protects, until a common doom they share,
The second, of a mould more soft and fair.
1. If measured, you will always trace
From rim to rim an equal space.
2. The famous sage, it must be owned,
Produced a famous vagabond.
3. Than wildest RNenia wilder still,
The Irish cry is on the hill.
4. The brain-sick youth hath startled all
The revellers in that northern hall.
5. Your " bookish theoric " 's a fool,
'Tis I afford the safest rule. 0.
SYMPATHY OF THOUGHT.
y V HAT a solid pleasure it is to meet some one, who not only T
likes but understands us! It is not enough to be liked,
though it is much and very much. Our best qualities come out
then, as our disagreeable ones do with those who dislike us, or
whom we dislike. But to be liked and understood makes life for
the time being eminently worth living. To like, to be liked, to
understand, to be understood: et demanm firmnia amicitia est.
Men,
who may be otherwise prosy bores, are delightful companions,
when these conditions are verified. This is especially so in the
case of literary and thoughtful people. Men who can say the
things they would, who can express patiently, passioniessly,
fearlessly views, persuasions, convictions on every subject of
thought, who can listen without thinking of what they are going
to say themselves, who can put themselves into others' states
and
circumstances, who are thinkers, not prejudiced passionate
partizans (often much better men, but nothing like so charming to
deal andl
converse with), men, who know what they know and what they do
not know : such men, when they meet under favourable
conditions, verily revel in " the feast of reason and flow of
soul." Such meetings are rare enough, I think. They mostly
happen
by chance. Prearranged they are generally disappointing.
Spontaneity is lacking. It has been said, "no one can be amusing to
order; " the same seems true of interesting and thoughtful talk. Of
course all who have the same likings, who
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Article Contentsp. 608p. 609
Issue Table of ContentsThe Irish Monthly, Vol. 25, No. 293
(Nov., 1897), pp. 561-616Denis Florence Mac Carthy's Daughter [pp.
561-574]A Long Christmas Eve [pp. 575-581]After Seeing M. Tissot's
Pictures [p. 582-582]The Church and Civil Society [pp.
583-595]White Roses [p. 595-595]Blessed Thaddeus Mac Carthy [pp.
596-597]Through the Dark Night. Or, Thirty Years Ago [pp.
598-607]Reunion [p. 607-607]Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin
Acrostics". Part IX [pp. 608-609]Sympathy of Thought [pp.
609-613]Review: Notes on New Books [pp. 613-616]
