Life — April 20, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: It was the fate of a practical and patriotic Scotsman of Rochester to assist at meeting of a certain improvement society, the while a Shakesperean scholar dilated the virtues of his favorite writer. At the close of the meeting the stranger approac the lecturer, and the following dialogue ensued : “Ye think a fine lot o’ Shakespeare, doctor ?” “do, sir,” was the emphatic reply. “ An’ ye think he was maie clever than Rabbi Burns?” $EISORS A WLS THE SHATTERED IDOL. HAT would’st thou ask of me, my love, My queen, adored above all things On earth, My wondrous love to show and prove And how I full appreciate Thy worth. O, ask of me, dear heart and true, Some gift of which we know there is Great dearth ; Some token ne'er before possessed Since my poor heart to purest love Gave birth, Make known thy wish, be not afraid, Ask in all soberness and not In mirth Andit shall be my every aim To grant it—and she said she'd like ‘The earth. 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