THE
MESSENGER COPYRIGHT
Vol. LIV
10.20
BY J. HARRIS
MARCH,
WELSH
1929
MEMENTO MORTIS BRUCE
MORRISSETTE
I Franc;ois has done with singing of the dames Who prompted, yester-year, alike to rhyme And platitude: the mingled fervid names Of Helo'ise and Allys and the mime Yolande are, as then, the snuffed-out flames Of flesh-white candles wrest away by Time Unheedful of banality. The games Of gods appear incessantly sublime.
II Franc;ois has done with singing, he who sang In verses quick with phantom ladies, mirth, And picklocks garrulous in gibbet slang: Franc;ois has done with singing, he whose girth Was lean, bones crackled, sotted with the tang Of brothels, Fat Margots, wines free of worth-! In fine, Franc;ois has done, whose music rang Protestingly at Time, the scourge of earth.
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