Select Poetry.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 472, 1 February 1881, Page 3

Select Poetry.

ENDYMION,

The shades of night were falling fast Round Hnghenden,—fer somo time past A Statesman, working day and night, A'flowery fiction did indite— Endymion.

His hair was dark, and you could trace A " soupgon " of an ancient race ; And still, in quite his early way, He wrote of Lords and Ladies gay — Endymion.

" Tempt not the Press," Lord Rowton said " Of critics have a timely dread : They skinned you when you wrote " Lothair." He answered, with his nose in air, " Endymion !"'

•" Oh stay," the Tory said, " and make That wicked Gladstone writhe and quake." A twinkle flashed from out his eye : '•I'll give him rope, " he said, '• ami try Endymion !"' " Bewaro tlie day they may heir in To break the Treaty of Berlin'!" This was the Tory's last appeal. lie only said, " I will reveal Endymion 1" And so, when Ireland was allame, The Eastern Question just the same, Conservative!* beheld with doubt Their leader bring his novel out — Endymion. And all who waded through the book, | Met Titles, Tailor, Prince, and Dook : | What wonder it is all the rago ? For Epigram adorns thy page, Endymion ! There, in the twilight, cold and grey. Serene in Curznn street he lay. "This cheque from Longmans will go far," A voice said. v Now for a cigar!" Endymion !