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Laughter from a Cloud

By Walter Raleigh with a foreword by Hilary Raleigh

Raleigh, Walter Alexander (1861-1922)

[epigraph]

WORD AND QUESTION GAME

[I have heard no word of my darling Jim]

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

[“What is the use of waiting?”]

[How far is it to London? Well, my friend]

[When I go to my wardrobe and pull out my clo'es]

[Life rang the bell to call the people in]

OCCASIONAL VERSE

JOHANNESBURG, NEW YEAR, 1896

TO A LADY WITH AN UNRULY AND ILL-MANNERED DOG

STANS PUER AD MENSAM

A Literature Lesson. SIR PATRICK SPENS

Verse I

II.

Verse II

THE ARTIST

THE BATTLE HYMN OF KENSIT'S MEN

ODE

TO PROFESSOR H. A. STRONG, LL. D.

SESTINA OTIOSA

ON J*** M*****

WISHES OF AN ELDERLY MAN

SONNET

MY LAST WILL

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Verse II

He spake: and straightway, rising from his side
An ancient senator, of reverend pride,
Unsealed his lips, and uttered from his soul
Great store of flatulence and rigmarole;
—All fled the Court, which shades of night invest,
And Pope and Gay and Prior told the rest. [OMITTED]