Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!
Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
Oh, might I vole to some umbrageous chump,--
Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
_O. W. Holmes_.
A HOLIDAY TASK
_Air--Jullien's Polka_
Qui nunc dancere vult modo
Wants to dance in the fashion, oh!
Discere debet--ought to know,
Kickere floor cum heel et toe
One, two three,
Hop with me,
Whirligig, twirligig, rapide.
Polkam jungere, Virgo, vis,
Will you join the Polka, Miss?
Liberius--most willingly.
Sic agimus--then let us try:
Nunc vide
Skip with me,
Whirlabout, roundabout, celere.
Tum laeva cito, tum dextra
First to the left, and then t' other way;
Aspice retro in vultu,
You look at her, and she looks at you.
Das palmam,
Change hands ma'am
Celere--run away, just in sham.
_Gilbert Abbott a Becket_.
PUER EX JERSEY
Puer ex Jersey
Iens ad school;
Vidit in meadow,
Infestum mule.
Ille approaches
O magnus sorrow!
Puer it skyward.
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