An idle poet, here and there Looks round him; but, for all the' eat, The world, unfathomably fair, Ts duller than @ wwitling's jest.
Love wakes men, once " lifetime each:
They se their cany heals and And, To, what 0 sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the And some give' thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget: but, either way, That, and the Child's unheeded dream, "Tne, British Legion Album, compiled by Fietd-MarshalEntl Haig in connexion' with his appeal for ex-Service men, will shortly be on sale in Shanghai, at Messrs. Kelly and Walsh's. According to th "Reforce;" this is the most wonderful five-shillingsworth ever offered, for shore is something from every well-Known man and woman in the Empire—Royalties, "soldiers, sailors, Ghurchmen, statesmen," authors, artists, oh! everybody you can think of, No such a collection of signatures, pictures, and quotations, all yo produced with the most serupnious fidelity, has, I should think, ever been got together before or ever will be again, All the profit from the sale goes to help the ex-Service men, and five shillings seems litle enough to-spend in ea good a cause.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.