Walter William Strickland

Name: Two Mock Epics
Author: Walter William Strickland

Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

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“Two Mock Epics”, published in 1894–1914, is a work by Walter William Strickland. It explores elements such as Chestnuts, Etcetera and fat capons.

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ Ina long chain that has no ending;
Though, to a mind that sees and thinks,
A boundless net, through all things wending,
Were amore apt similitude;
Our narrow, lancet minds perceiving
One file of meshes, and believing
That to be all, as eyes conclude,
Because so moulded by our sight,
In rays and pencils springs the light
That rolls through all things infinite,—
One strand, I say, of causes and
Effects was twisted in the land
Of Yankee, which I place my trust on
To save Sir Blasius from combustion. ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ So Blasius won the day, at least, he
Appeared to win, but soon his outlines
And his Achates, too, grow misty
Far down stream, and the night of doubt lines
The hollow vale, and hangs its pall
O’er mountain shrine, o’er echoing hall,
O’er whited kirk, o’er fretted altar,
O’er chanted rhymes, o’er periods rounded,
O’er creeds that fail, o’er faiths that falter,
All mouldering, in one white ring bounded,
Dim as the shadowy streams that pen
The pale, wan ghosts that once were men ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ Itself, to show the sceptic scoffers
Who mock humanity’s weak sides
How subtly interest divides
The bands of hate; what vice exacts
Self-love or avarice counteracts;
How passions timely yield to reason’s
Mild influence or the change of seasons;
How nature’s nail now this whim stopping,
Now that, keeps all the cat-gut hopping,
Expectant lifted high, now sinking
Despairing, swearing, hoodwinking, drinking,
Protesting, resting, declaiming, blaming,
Now cutting short its own existence,
Its neighbour’s now, with the assistance
Of slugs and seconds, swords and scandals ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ Here, roused by clarions’ and bassoons’ tones
To costliest viands, costliest vice,
Beyond the dreams of avarice,
They lived their earthly Paradise,
Fawned on by flattery and servility—
These Christian preachers of humility!
Their Buddhist bowls for humble doles
And scourge of knotted thongs upon vent,
Being—for the outside of the convent.
Alas! in these lewd days of doubters
The inner walls are like the outers ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ SIR BLASIUS.
A mock-heroic Epic in three Cantos, showing forth in choicest doggrel how and by what means Providence protecteth its chosen ministers of grace: and how the Christian dispensation, in beauty, depth and tenderness, immeasurably surpasseth Paganism, Atheism, Scepticism, Humanitarianism, and all other such damnable heresies and superstitions whatsoever. ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ Where blear-eyed brats o’er muck heaps clamber,
And sows lie farrowing in the chamber,
Had burst a perfect vinous deluge
And turned the vats and casks to sluices,
In fact, in all the land no well huge
Enough to hold the surplus juices
Was found, they rushed down oyer-brimming
Troughs—dykes—the very fields were swimming. ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ And tonsures blaze like backwood clearings,
Each hair erect, as through them whistled,
Like slug or grape shot: “Hark! ye, dumb-heads,
Swift call the fire-brigade!” or bristled
As “flay their mangy hides for drum-heads!” ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ The dense mob heaves in breathless rapture,
When pizz! whizz! splash from bald pate sallow
Off flies a hat, the hat to capture
The owner with scant back hair dripping
Among the crowd goes dipping, dipping. ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ Themselves to choke and one to ti-
ce, those healing waters otherwhither.
Rome’s harpies teach, though, to be sure,
Themselves—but that’s a sine cure—
Rifle the pockets of the poor
Without compunction, of the sever
Most deadly sins which forfeit heaven:
The worst of all is to defraud
The poor man of his toil’s reward,
“His labours’ fruits” the Church’s phrase is
(The penalty’s the usual blazes)
Which, perhaps, but means, with due reserves,
Hands off! don’t poach on our preserves! ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ That deep of ignorance is the thirst;
And that, while earth spins west to east,
Rome remains Rome, and priest a priest.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1894, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1938, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 85 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ They must not ask or beg for coin:
But only bread, cheese, pork, sirloin,
Chestnuts, fat capons, fish, fruit, wine,
Chestnuts, fat capons, fish, fruit,Etcetera.
In practice if you offer bread
They curl their noses, and, instead,
With truculence demand your money,
Chestnuts, fat capons, fish, fruit,Etcetera. ”

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Walter William Strickland, Two Mock Epics (1894–1914)

“ Popes, pope’s toes, tonsures, nuns, worm-eaten
Confessionals, with brass plates beaten
Fine and pierced large for whispered sins
To slip through easily from chins
In lace and powder, rouge and pins ”

Walter William Strickland

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