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OSCAR WILDE.Whul time the billows of the fierce Atlantic Are highest niled,Descend* u|Km lie, beautifnl and frantic,King of the realms of bric-a-brac, the antic Young Osenr Wilde.Unshorn bis wispy locks, his visage hollow,But ski rn-milk mild ;The beauty of the Belvidere Apollo,The arUeasnosa of Jacob Abbot's Kollo Hath Oscar WiJdo.He sleeps upon a clay bed, strewn with moly Unique, unriled ; lie srorns the ration* of the herd unholy,On honey dew nnlt;l muak and roly-poly Feeds Oscar Wilde.He holdeth sweet discourse in English pristine And u misfiled,Of Siitsumu and Sevres and t he Bistiife ;The floresis love him, but the smug PhiUistine Ilates Oscar Wilde.Bereft of Bum© Jones, from hi# native arbors Remote, exiled,Him now our too ha rbnric Goth run harbors The loved of ladies, but the loathed of barber/, Bold Oscar Wilde.High is hi- art fund price); lie wears his collar Like Byron’s Child*;In Uve and letters he’s a clover scholar,Yet I'm nfnd I can’t nilbrd a dollar For Oscar Wilde..—[Now York Sun.a maniacs freak.“1 have heart! of poraous whose lm:r
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Roseburg Douglas Independent
Roseburg, Oregon, US
Sat, Feb 18, 1882
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