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Ode on the Distant Prospect of a New Novel
On August 28
The advertisements state,
If your wiring from Moscow or Delhi,
You will not be too late
For a chance of the great
New book by Miss Marie Corelli.
The advertisements state,
If your wiring from Moscow or Delhi,
You will not be too late
For a chance of the great
New book by Miss Marie Corelli.
On August 28
It will come like a spate,
(Not so came the poems of Shelley,)
And we anticipate
That our joy will be great
In the work of Miss Marie Corelli.
It will come like a spate,
(Not so came the poems of Shelley,)
And we anticipate
That our joy will be great
In the work of Miss Marie Corelli.
At the stations the boys
With exuberant noise
To purchase the book will compel ye;
While tyrants will pale
At the sight of the tale
That is launched for Miss Marie Corelli.
With exuberant noise
To purchase the book will compel ye;
While tyrants will pale
At the sight of the tale
That is launched for Miss Marie Corelli.
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For her ‘Temporal Power’
Cometh up like a flower,
Rose-red with the hues of Crivelli;
And I'd not be a king
If she's having a fling
At the sceptre—Miss Marie Corelli.
Cometh up like a flower,
Rose-red with the hues of Crivelli;
And I'd not be a king
If she's having a fling
At the sceptre—Miss Marie Corelli.
Perhaps she'll let down
The sceptre and crown
And not beat the throne to a jelly,
And each excellent king
May have reason to sing
To the praise of Miss Marie Corelli.
The sceptre and crown
And not beat the throne to a jelly,
And each excellent king
May have reason to sing
To the praise of Miss Marie Corelli.
Were I Kaiser or Tsar
I'd give Garter and Star—
And my robes for the rags of Cleg Kelly,
If Republican rage
Is inspiring the page
Of the dauntless Miss Marie Corelli!
I'd give Garter and Star—
And my robes for the rags of Cleg Kelly,
If Republican rage
Is inspiring the page
Of the dauntless Miss Marie Corelli!
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