 | A Summer Christmas and a Sonnet upon The S.S. "Ballaarat." |  |
They did not draw the lots because
It seemed too formal, but Lil was
By common acclamation named
Queen of the night, and, as such, claimed
Another tale of old Greek lore,
Such as he'd told the night before,
And asked him, if he could, to say
More of the sad Nausicäa.
Accordingly th' Oxonian,
Ere he the evening's tale began,
Repeated to them a sad song
That he had fancied for her tongue.
It seemed too formal, but Lil was
By common acclamation named
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Another tale of old Greek lore,
Such as he'd told the night before,
And asked him, if he could, to say
More of the sad Nausicäa.
Accordingly th' Oxonian,
Ere he the evening's tale began,
Repeated to them a sad song
That he had fancied for her tongue.
| A Summer Christmas and a Sonnet upon The S.S. "Ballaarat." | |