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Hamilton: Epigrams
ON A STATUE OF SIR ARTHUR
SULLIVAN
{A bronze figure of Grief leaning against the high pedestal)
Sorrowing nymph, oh why display
Your beauty in such disarray?
Is it decent, is it just
To so conventional a bust?
G. R. HAMILTON
DON'S HOLIDAY
Professor Robinson each summer beats
The fishing record of the world—such feats
As one would hardly credit from a lesser
Person than a history professor.
G. R. HAMILTON
ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF AN
ABSCONDING BOOKMAKER
Alas! what boots it that my noble steed,
Chosen so carefully, the field outran?
I did not reckon, bookie, on your speed:
The proper study of mankind is man.
G. R. HAMILTON
EMINENT COSMOLOGISTS
Nature, and Nature's laws, lay hid in night,
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE
It did not last: the Devil howling Ho,
Let Einstein be, restored the status quo.
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