Life — February 7, 1907 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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And all Caffin said to Loomis as they stood on the street corner was, ‘What a mercurial young HE fourth volume of the Shelburne Essays, by Paul Elmar More, has just been issued by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Mr. More touches very intelligently upon Benjamin Franklin: I cannot pass on without quoting the least of these, the letter to a young friend “On the Lass of Her American Squirrel.” It belongs with that long list of poems and epitaphs, hali-playful and half pathetic, on the pets of dear women, beginning with Lesbia's sparrow: “Tlament with you most sincerely the unfortunat end of poor Mungo. Few squirrels were bet actomplished, for he had a good education, traveled far, and seen much of the world. As he had the | your favorite, he kuggs, without an honor of being, for his virtuc should not go, like common elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the | monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose, nor verse, is perhaps the properest since to use common language would if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling in sorrow: EPITAPH Alas! poor Mungo! Happy wert thou, hadst thou known Thy own felicity. Remote from the fierce bald eagle, Tyrant of thy native woods, ‘Thou hadst naught to fear from his piercing talons, Nor from the murdering gun Of the thoughtless sportsman, Safe in thy wired castle, Grimalkin never could annoy thee. Daily wert thou fed with the choicest viands, By the fair hand of an indulgent mistress; But, discontented, Thou wouldst have more freedom. Too soon, alas! didst thou obtain it; And wandering, Thou art fallen by the fangs of wanton, cruel Ranger Learn hence, Ye who blindly seck more liberty, Whether subjects, sons, squirrels, or daugh That apparent restraint.may be real protection, Yielding peace and plenty ~ With security. “You sce, my dear miss, how much more decent and proper this broken style is than if we were to say by way of epitaph: Here Skugg Lies snug As a bug In a rug. “And yet, perhaps, there are people in the world of so little feeling as to think that this would be a good enough epitaph for poor Mungo.” comicbooks.com _