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Farewell, this ends my rhyming, submitted at its worth. Lest I forget pride goes before the fall, on earth And exceeding fine if slowly, grind the mills of angry gods The muses' steed, a versifying bronco had I caught And recklessly I rode; but fast as thought Fate overtook me when Pegasus bucked me off.
Feeling her desolation, wild, melancholy, forsaken songs rose thereon from that frightful aerie, weeping, wailing tunes, that sob among the people from age to age, and overflow with otherwise unexpressed sadness, all rude, mournful ballads, old tearful strains, that Shakspeare heard the vagrants sing, and that rise and fall like the wind and tide, sailor-songs, to be heard only in lone mid-watches beneath the moon and stars, ghastly rhyming romances, such as that famous one of the "Lady Margaret," when
"Did Rhyming Joe know you were there?" "No, sir; I don't believe he did." "From the conversation overheard by you, have you reason to believe that Rhyming Joe is acquainted with the facts relating to your parentage?" "Yes, sir; he must know." "And, from hearing that conversation, did you become convinced that you are Simon Craft's grandson and not Robert Burnham's son?" "Yes, sir, I did.
Harold Vernon Perkins, poet," said Dick. "He's got his rhyming dictionary and all his odes with him." "Without knowing," said Dorothy, "I should have thought his name was Harold or Arthur or Paul. He looks it." "It wa'n't my fault," interjected the old lady, "that he come. I didn't even sense that he was on the same train as me till I hired the carriage at the junction an' he clim' in.
So these tragical beginnings of this rich merchant's story were all forgotten in the unexpected good fortune which ensued; and there was leisure to laugh at the comical adventure of the rings, and the husbands that did not know their own wives: Gratiano merrily swearing, in a sort of rhyming speech, that "while he lived, he'd fear no other thing So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa's ring."
And then Balder disappeared in clouds of smoke, and I heard and saw no more. I was awakened again by a light being held near my face. Balder was standing at my bedside with the candle in his hand. "Ah! I'm glad you've been asleep again!" he said, as I half-opened my eyes and looked at him. "I want to make a poem to my Spaniard. Have you got a rhyming dictionary anywhere about?"
It was a slip of yellow note paper, checked along the margin with groups of rhyming words and scansion marks, and in the middle this single verse. "Pajaro Corazon! Bird of the Heart!
On the contrary, the verse is never measured with more majestic effect than when it moves in honour of this Lady of the lyrics. Sir Walter Raleigh is but a jerky writer when he is rhyming other things, however bitter or however solemn; but his lines on death, which are also lines on immortality, are infinitely noble.
And then a line he couldn't remember exactly, containing, for the sake of the rhyme, some total irrelevancy about the weather, and a sickening bit of false rhyming to end up with, about loving forever and ever. The jingle of that tune had kept time to his steps, and the silly words had sung themselves over and over endlessly in his brain until the mockery of it had become absolutely excruciating.
It might seem that Ben Jonson had a prophetic foreboding of him when he wrote: "Others there are that have no composition at all, but a kind of tuning and rhyming fall, in what they write. It runs and slides and only makes a sound. Women's poets they are called, as you have women's tailors. They write a verse as smooth, as soft, as cream In which there is no torrent, nor scarce stream.
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