The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. YellowplushThackeray, William Makepeace
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The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Didactic fiction; England -- Fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Master and servant -- Fiction
“And these the lips
Where, till this hour, the sad and holy kiss
Of parting linger'd, as the fragrance left
By ANGELS when they touch the earth and vanish.”
NORMAN.
“Hark! she has blessed her son! I bid ye witness,
Ye listening heavens--thou circumambient air:
The ocean sighs it back--and with the murmur
Rustle the happy leaves. All nature breathes
Aloud--aloft--to the Great Parent's ear,
The blessing of the mother on her child.”
NORMAN.
“I dream of love, enduring faith, a heart
Mingled with mine--a deathless heritage,
Which I can take unsullied to the STARS,
When the Great Father calls his children home.”
NORMAN.
“The blue air, breathless in the STARRY peace,
After long silence hushed as heaven, but filled
With happy thoughts as heaven with ANGELS.”
NORMAN.
“Till one calm night, when over earth and wave
Heaven looked its love from all its numberless STARS.”
NORMAN.
“Those eyes, the guiding STARS by which I steered.”
NORMAN.
“That great mother
(The only parent I have known), whose face
Is bright with gazing ever on the STARS--
The mother-sea.”
NORMAN.
“My bark shall be our home;
The STARS that light the ANGEL palaces
Of air, our lamps.”
NORMAN.
“A name that glitters, like a STAR, amidst
The galaxy of England's loftiest born.”
LADY ARUNDEL.
“And see him princeliest of the lion tribe,
Whose swords and coronals gleam around the throne,
The guardian STARS of the imperial isle.”
The fust spissymen has been going the round of all the papers, as real,
reglar poatry. Those wickid critix! they must have been laffing in their
sleafs when they quoted it. Malody, suckling round and uppards from the
bows, like a happy soul released, hangs in the air, and from invizable
plumes shakes sweetness down. Mighty fine, truly! but let mortial man
tell the meannink of the passidge. Is it MUSICKLE sweetniss that Malody
shakes down from its plumes--its wings, that is, or tail--or some
pekewliar scent that proceeds from happy souls released, and which they
shake down from the trees when they are suckling round and uppards? IS
this poatry, Barnet? Lay your hand on your busm, and speak out boldly:
Is it poatry, or sheer windy humbugg, that sounds a little melojous, and
won't bear the commanest test of comman sence?
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