Name: The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes
Author: Alfred Bruce Douglas

Quotes from The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes (Alfred Bruce Douglas)

Alfred Bruce Douglas, The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

“ Has not the pluck to rise up from the ground?
Peace, peace, the Crab adopts a side-long walk,
For reasons still impossible to see.
And if his pride permitted him to talk
To any one who did not do as he,
His instinct would be, probably, to balk
The hopes of vulgar curiosity.
And while the schoolmen argue and discuss,
And fill the air with "whats," and "whens," and "whys,"
And demonstrate as: thus, and thus, and thus,
The crab will pulverise their theories,
And put an end to all this foolish fuss
By walking sideways into Paradise. ”

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Alfred Bruce Douglas, The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

“ Poisons the air with beastly brazen sound,
While cockney couples wander hand in hand,
Original And dismal tourists tour,
Original
And bounders bound.
And donkey-boys allure to donkey rides
The sitters on the sand beside the sea,
And touts sell "guides" to all the town provides,
From theatres to "painless dentistry." ”

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Alfred Bruce Douglas, The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

“ The Pug at home snores in ignoble ease.
(And all the while the Shark in Southern seas!)
If Pugs like Sharks were brought up in the sea
And forced to swim long miles to find their food,
Tutored to front the Hake's hostility,
And beard the Lobster in his dangerous mood,
Would not their lives more sane, more useful be,
If Pugs like Sharks were brought up in the sea? ”

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Alfred Bruce Douglas, The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

“ Nature allows the fullest scope.
HYMN FOR HOWLERS WHO that has sailed upon the ocean's face,
Or walked beside the sea along the sand,
Has not felt envy for the piscine race,
Comparing its domain, where noise is banned,
To the infernal racket that takes place
On land?
While up above the billows rage and roar
And make a most unnecessary noise,
And shallow Shrimps, who live too near the shore,
Are harassed by the shouts of girls and boys,
Who find the beach a place convenient for
Their toys ”

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Alfred Bruce Douglas, The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

“ Regenerate mankind,
Aspire to climb the Heights, and dare
To emulate the Belgian hare?
HYMN FOR HUMBLE PEOPLE THE staunch and strenuous Serpent spends his time
In the safe field of serpentine pursuits,
Rightly considering it a social crime
To parody the ways of other brutes.
Scorning the fraud of alien aspirations,
The snobbishness that apes another class,
Proud, and yet conscious of his limitations,
He bites the dust and grovels in the grass.
The moral food that keeps him down is Force,
Force to confine his fancies to their beds. ”

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Alfred Bruce Douglas, The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

“ But in the search for Natural guides
To moral food-restrictions,
We are assaulted on all sides
By patent contradictions.
Thus, while the Lion lives on meat,
The Pheasant is content with wheat. ”

Alfred Bruce Douglas

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