" The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,
Which men called old two thousand years ago : Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime,— A rose-red city—half as old as Time."
They will be found in his poems. " Petra " is the name of this prize poem. The parody is :— " Match me such marvel, save in Oxford port, A rose-red liquor, half as old as Short."
So Mr. Andrew Lang gives it in an old newspaper article.
Perhaps you may like an attempt to put into Greek
"For first of all he floored the port, And then he floored the porter."
np;;ra yap &poop& As kido-rpures olvororci CM*, 0, , Cp „ ZITO oe TOY Opta, VINTKIDY aTCLOVUnt7IS.
But it has been necessary to treat " porter" in the sense which it bears when it is derived from "porto," not " porta," to keep the play upon words. Poetical licenses, like others,
are renewed on January am, Sir, &c., P.
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