Post by GoetzKluge on Apr 24, 2014 1:00:38 GMT -5
Time takes no bribes. You collect it without having to subscribe.
This comparison shows Henry Holiday's depiction of the Bellman in the front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and Father Time from an allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610) depicting Queen Elizabeth I at Old Age. That painting also is important to understand the construction of Henry Holiday's illustration to the back cover.
369 "The method employed I would gladly explain,
370 While I have it so clear in my head,
371 If I had but the time and you had but the brain --
372 But much yet remains to be said.
381 "As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird,
382 Since it lives in perpetual passion:
383 Its taste in costume is entirely absurd --
384 It is ages ahead of the fashion:
385 "But it knows any friend it has met once before:
386 It never will look at a bribe:
387 And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
388 And collects -- though it does not subscribe.
389 "Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
390 Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
391 (Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar,
392 And some, in mahogany kegs: )
393 "You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
394 You condense it with locusts and tape:
395 Still keeping one principal object in view --
396 To preserve its symmetrical shape."