ExEor monumentum acre peren- Morrow my monument is Regalique situ
pyramidum al- tins ; Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere, aut innumer- abilis Annorum series et fuga tem- porum.
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam. Usque ego posters Crescam laude reams, dam Capitolium Scandit cum tacit& virgine pon- tifex.
Dicer qua violens obstrepit Aufidus thus, builded not of marble nor of brass, 'Twill outshine good Albert's. statue, Eiffel's pinnacle surpass.
Never may the rains assail it.. nor the blizzards round it rage.
In imperishable splendour last- ing on from age to age.
For so long as Mr. Speaker,. ushered by the silent mace, Stalks with stately ceremonial to his high appointed place,.
Though my venerable figure shall have vanished from the scene Part of me will never vanish ever will my fame be green.
By the margin of the Mersey, in the distant Isle of Skye, Where the Caledonian crofter- drinks neat whisky when he's dry,
• Mr. Aubrey de Pere.
Et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium Segnavit populorum, ex humili potens,
Frinceps Aeolium carmen ad Itslos
Deduxisse modos. Sume super- biam 4Quaesitam meritis, et mihi Delphic,a Laura cinge volens, Melpomene, comam Men shall hail me as the Premier, who, by intuition led, To the crownless harp of Erin English measures sought to wed.
Fear not then, 0 Muse of Tara, to exuberate with me: Our unique collaboration jus- tifies a jubilee : Nor omit to crown your cham- pion, in the sunset of his days,
Lord of Dodomean diction, with a wreath of Delphic bays.
C. L. GRAVES.
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