E.S.Q.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 476, 31 May 1890, Page 2

E.S.Q.

[ wonder what these letters mean ! I wonder if they show Thai; some are stationed high in life, And some are standing low,! If yea, , r wonder which they.mark ; i cannot tell—-can you ? Whether 'tis credit or a shame To be an E-S-Q ? ’Tis true thet in another land, They do a meaning own, And note the faintest ray that’s shot From the seintdlant throne ; But, sending for boot-black here, I cannot tell—can you ? Why I should, would,could, ought to v rjte™ Sam Jonson, 15-S-Q. ?. And, writing to a pian of parts,

Whose claims to honor flow From mighty deeds or stirring words,

What do the letters show ?, That, they will lustre cast on him,

I cannot think—can you ? We m.thing add, sir. though we write Addendum. E-S-Q. But, icc. must some distinction make !•

Indeed ? Tis very right ; But quite as easy for the blind To tell the flay from night. What court shall sit upon the claims ?.

I would not dare—would you ? Say who shall he a simple AIAN, And who an E-S-Q ? Tf thou would’at challenge men’s respect - , ’So labor that thy name Alav glisten with an inborn light Upon the scroll of fame. o,uf very schoolboys,, sir, w.ould laugh (Rightly, I think—don’t'you ?) O’er “ commentaries written by J. 'Caesar, E-S-Q.”

I greatly wonder men of rank, And men too, Don’t drop for ever, and at once? The senseless E-S-Q. See ! , gentlemen, we nameless folk. ■ Are aping after you ; I wonder that you s(ill will use Plebeian,'E-S-Q. I’m no Reformer ; would not choose To make myself a mark' For Custom's arrows, while her curs In stupid, chorus bark. Follow the fashion, if you; please, It may' be meet for you ; But let me shoot for rarer'game Than common E-S-Q. ■ —Eugene H. Munpay.