DOI Heft:
Davidson, John: Proem to "The wonderful mission of Earl Lavender"
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21805#0288
Proem to “ The Wonderful
Mission of Earl Lavender ”
By John Davidson
Though our eyes turn ever waveward
Where our sun is well-nigh set ;
Though our Century totters graveward
We may laugh a little yet.
Oh ! our age-end style perplexes
All our elders time has tamed ;
On our sleeves we wear our sexes,
Our diseases, unashamed.
Have we lost the mood romantic
That was once our right by birth ?
Lo ! the greenest girl is frantic
With the woe of all the earth.
But we know a British rumour,
And we think it whispers well :
11 We would ventilate our humour
In the very jaws of Hell.”
Though
Mission of Earl Lavender ”
By John Davidson
Though our eyes turn ever waveward
Where our sun is well-nigh set ;
Though our Century totters graveward
We may laugh a little yet.
Oh ! our age-end style perplexes
All our elders time has tamed ;
On our sleeves we wear our sexes,
Our diseases, unashamed.
Have we lost the mood romantic
That was once our right by birth ?
Lo ! the greenest girl is frantic
With the woe of all the earth.
But we know a British rumour,
And we think it whispers well :
11 We would ventilate our humour
In the very jaws of Hell.”
Though