Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

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    That most ingenious paradox!
    We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
    But none to beat that paradox!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Strike the concertina’s melancholy string!
    Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
    Let the piano’s martial blast
    Rouse the Echoes of the Past,
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    They played the eloquent tum-tum,
    And lived on scalps served up in rum—
    The only sauce they knew.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    While this magnetic,
    Peripatetic
    Lover he lived to learn,
    By no endeavor
    Can a magnet ever
    Attract a Silver Churn!
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Bless your heart, they don’t mind—they’re exceedingly
    kind—
    They don’t blame you—as long as you’re funny!
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)