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Graham: 'Poetical Economy
If Mr Caine rewrote The Scape.,
And Miss Correll condensed Barabb.,
What could they save in foolscap pape.
Did they but cult, the hab.
Which teaches people to suppress
All syllables that are unnec!
If playwrights would but thus dimin.:
The length of time each drama takes,
(The Second Mrs Tanq. by Pin.
Or even Ham., by Shakes.)
We could maintain a watchful att.
When at a Mat. on Wed. or Sat.
Have done, ye bards, with dull monot.!
Foil, my examp., O, Stephen Phill.,
O, Owen Seam., O, William Wat.,
O, Ella Wheeler WiL,
And share with me the grave respons.
Of writing this amazing nons.!
HARRY GRAHAM
ERE YOU WERE QUEEN OF SHEBA
When we were a soft amoeba, in ages past and gone,
Ere you were Queen of Sheba, or I King Solomon,
Alone and undivided, we lived a life of sloth,
Whatever you did, I did; one dinner served for both.
Anon came separation, by fission and divorce,
A lonely pseudopodium Lwandered on my course.
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SIR ARTHUR SHIPLEY