BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES OLD/AND NEW. '.'" .„'■'• '. .VERSES. OLD AND NEW. ' / ':"' '••.," EXAMPLES.. , ; ■'•;■' Comet flash across de-sky, .- ■'• .!•■■•'.',.■"' Dunno whore if s bound; ' "'. .Pays a visit on do fly, "Jes' a-foolin'..'round. Blossoms sinilin' up so sweet In de woods-'is found— - Den /dey vanishes complete, . '■ ■ . Jes' a-foolin ! 'round. :,-.■■''■ • It's encouragin' to sec 'In desky.or ground, '•"; Everything,, de sarao as me, -'. 'Jes' a-foolin' 'round. '. ' ' —"Washington Star." SEE SONG OF" THE SOU'-WESTER, Ihe sun was lost'.lji a leaden sky, ■ And. the shore/ lay under our lee; .When a great S6u/,-Wester hurricane high Came rollicking'.up the sea. He played with'the fleet as a boy with . boats,' .. Till out for the Downs we ran, ■ Hud he laughed,, with, tho roar of a tb.ousand"throats 'At. tho militant'ways of man: Oh! Lain .the enemy, most of might, .' '■■ '■ The. otboi><>be who you please! . Gunner-and guns may all he right, Flags a'flying and armour tight, • But I am .the fellow you've first to ' "' figllt-r, ",-.-' ■''.-.' Tho giant that swings tho seas! ■ ji dozen of middies were down below ■ Chasing the; S. -they love, '. iWhOe the. table curtseyed long and slow, And the4amps were.giddy above. . ..-{Che lesson" Was all-of a 1 ship and a shot, And sonie jOf.it may have been true, Bnt the word they heard and never forgot Was the 1 -word of the wind that blew: V ' Oh! -I am ' tho enemy most of . .might, etc.. , ...'Hie Middy,with luck is a Captain soon, ■' With luck ho may hear one day - .- ' His own- big guns a-humming the . turio '''Twas in Trafalgar Bay." But- wherever he goes,. with friends or' ; .'. foes, . .'-.'"'.' And whatever may there befall, He'll, hear for-ever a voice he knows Fir over defying them all: ' ' ; -Oh! I am the. enemy most of ~ -"•■ might, etc. i . ' r—Henry, Newbolt, in "The Spectator.".