Shakespeare up to Date.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 16 December 1896, Page 2

Shakespeare up to Date.

■ ■''■■■ 0 All the world's a wheel, And all the mtm and women merely cyclists ; They have their tandems and their tri. wheelers j And each cne in his time rides many miles, Taking several headers- At first, the infant, Trundled along by his nurse's strong arms ; And theu tho jocund schoolboy, with his | satchel 1 And shining morning face, wheeling like wind Right willingly to school. And then the lover, Scorching like lightning, with a piece of plaster Made for his mistress' eyebrow. Next comes the scorcher, sudden and quick in racing, Seeking the bubble reputation Een on the asphake p ith. And then the justice, In fair round belly, on r ihirty-poun3er, With eyca severe, bus watchful of bnuimucks*, Thinking of laws, and modern instances ; \nd so he rides his bike. The next one seen, Uncoutli, is lean and alipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His golf stocking, well-darned, a world too wide For his shrunk shank— his solid- tyre bicycle, Vintage of '91, revolving >vih s rat ' n n sound, And whistling in the wind. Last scene of all That ends this strange, eventful history ; The idle horse, wistful, wond'ring in his stable, Suns rig, sans reins, sa»is bit, sa><s everything. —From The Triad.