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 As clever to misquote: when scant of news Fill filthy columns from the Sydney stews— Should aught original here find a place It would the vilest venal pen disgrace——

The Kempian torso! future students hail With anxious query, had the thing a tail? A future Owen striking at the root, Shall mend the monster, reconstruct the brute, And prove the best of Megatherium brood Of waddling habits, and waste paper food, Of wondrous action, startled seal at bay Legs! thy asymptotes,—Hyperbola!!! (Which as the erudite M. C.’s don’t know Ever approach tho’ meeting proves no go )—— All know the tale of the Kilkenny cats Whose wars intestine spare the breed of rats For, as poor pussy at its neighbour rails Both disappear, and lo! a pair of tails— So shall Parkesennery from intestine flights Leave to post-science but his co-prolites.—

Is this an Atheist thet my fancy drew Or Moslem, Parsee, Pariah, or Jew? Prophetic typical of your renown Is that skew bridge that lately tumbled down Tho keystone speech so archly done by you That it might finish as commenced askew—— With such fatality; predestined work In future hail it as the Brig ’o Turk——