: The Tatler Volume 3 by Addison Joseph Steele Richard Sir Aitken George Atherton Editor - English wit and humor Periodicals; English essays 18th century Periodicals; Great Britain Politics and government 1702-1714 Periodicals

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BALLAD OF THE ARRAS

O sanguine book of History! Romance with perfume cloaks thy must, But he who shakes the page may see --Dust.

Stiff hangs the arras in the gloom; I turn my head awhile to gaze: Here lordly stallions fret and fume, Here streams o'er briar and brake the chase.

Here sounds a horn, here turns a face, How filled with fires of life and lust! Wind shakes the arras and betrays --Dust.

Ephemeral hand inditing this Great hound that lolls against my knee, Lips pursed in thought as if to kiss Regret--full soon the time must be.

When one shall search, but find not ye, For that dim moth whose labours rust All forms in time or tapestry --Dust.

Forth offspring to the perch and then Clap wings--or fall, if find you must This saddest fate of books or men --Dust.

DEATH THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY

I had almost forgotten James Wilder's existence, when, one night in June, I received an urgent message asking me to call upon him without delay.

An hour later I was sitting in his library, and in the arm-chair opposite mine was sunk what seemed the spectre of my friend. During the ten months that had elapsed since our last meeting he had passed from middle life to premature old age.

"I am glad you have come," he said, "I am in need of a friend, but do not speak to me yet, that is, for a moment, I wish to think."

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