AD PLANCUM LAUDABUNT alii claram Rhodon aut Mytilenen, Moenia, vel Baccho Thebas vel Apolline Delphos Insignes aut Thessala Tempe. Sunt, quibus unum opus est intactæ Palladis urbem Carmine perpetuo celebrare, et 15 AD MORLEIUM SOME say 'twas in Midlothian, and some there be who swear I first beheld the moonlight in the wilds of county Clare. Some say 'twas Tory Island, and some have little doubt 'Twas either Tara famed for song, or Dublin famed for stout. Some back the Modern Athens, whose architecture's grace In all its 'virgin purity' in memory I retrace. 'I know Edinburgh well; I knew almost every street and every corner when Edinburgh was in what I may call the virgin purity of its architecture.'-Speech of Mr. Gladstone at the Council Chamber, Edinburgh, November 25, 1879. Undique decerptam fronti præponere olivam. Plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos ditesque Mycenas. Me nec tam patiens Lacedæmon Nec tam Larissæ percussit campus opimæ, Et præceps Anio ac Tiburni lucus et uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis. Albus ut obscuro deterget nubila cœlo Sæpe Notus neque parturit imbres Perpetuos, sic tu sapiens finire memento Tristitiam vitæque labores Hall Caine would like to claim me for the Isle of Grand Old Man, And Labouchere's disposed to think I hail from the Soudan; While many a gallant Taffy is as sure as eggs can be That from the house of Harlech I derive my pedigree. But though unable to affirm that I have not been smitten With all the disadvantages of being born a Briton, In spite of strong inducements to emerge on alien earth I blush to own in Liverpool the background of my birth. But stay, I'll move the closure here. Though, Morley, you and I Were born and bred on English soil, 'neath England's foggy sky, Though wearied by your daily dose of endless Irish stew, Though Art is looking Yellow, and politics look blue, C |