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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890

Author: Various

Editor: F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Release Date: September 19, 2009 [eBook #30033]

Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 98.

FEBRUARY 8, 1890.

[Illustration: ]

UNTILED; OR, THE MODERN ASMODEUS.

"Tres volontiers," repartit le demon. "Vous aimez les tableaux
changeans: je veux vous contenter."

_Le Diable Boiteux._

XIX.

"A Late Symposium! Yet they're not engaged
In compotations. Argument hath raged
Four hours by the dial;
But zealotry of party, creed, or clique
Marks not the clock, whilst of polemic pique
There's one unvoided vial."

So smiled the Shade. Dusk coat and gleaming head,
Viewed from above, before my gaze outspread
Like a black sea bespotted
With bare pink peaks of coral isles; all eyes
Were fixed on one who reeled out rhapsodies
In diction double-shotted.

A long and lofty room, with pillars cold,
And spacious walls of chocolate and gold;
The solid sombre glory
Of tint oppressive and of tasteless shine,
Dear to the modern British Philistine,
Saint, sceptic, Whig, or Tory.

"No Samson-strength of intellect or taste
Shall bow the pillars of this temple chaste
Of ugliness and unction.
What is't they argue lengthily and late?
The flame of patriot passion for the State
Fires this polemic function.

"A caitiff