Thanks are due to the Editors of the _Spectator_, _New Witness_, _Oxford Chronicle_ and _Eton Candle_ for permission to reprint certain of these poems. If you would view, buy tickets at the door. Your brain for lucre please! the fishes here Require some effort on your part, no more, For comprehension; then the water’s clear And you will see, dimpling in hyaline Fish, oval, strange, glitter as rubied wine In crystal goblets; fish with spotted gills, Great flower-fish like open daffodils, Pale fish that float with mellow, morbid eyes, Dark fish that feed on wings of dragon flies, Fish fulvid and fugacious, hovering Amongst the silver cress with carmine wing, And fish with small reticulated sc…
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