RECENT CAVALRY EVOLUTIONS ON THE THAMES.]

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DEVELOPMENT.

(_WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE AUTHOR OF "PATIENCE."_)

["Even a colour-sense is more important in the development
of the individual than a sense of right and wrong."--OSCAR
WILDE.]

If you're anxious to develop to a true hedonic "swell," hop on a
pinnacle apart,
Like a monkey on a stick, and your phrases quaintly pick, and then
prattle about Art.
Take some laboured paradoxes, and, like Samson's flaming foxes, let
them loose amidst the corn
(Or the honest commonplaces) of the Philistines whose graces you
regard with lofty scorn.
And every one will say,
As you squirm your wormy way,
"If this young man expresses himself in terms that stagger _me_,
What a very singularly smart young man this smart young man must be!"

You may be a flabby fellow, and lymphatically yellow, that will
matter not a mite.
If you take yourself in hand, in a way you'll understand, to become
a Son of Light.
On your crassness superimposing the peculiar art of glosing in sleek