OUTLOOK

ODES

By T. W. H. CROSLAND

AUTHOR OF "THE UNSPEAKABLE SCOT,"
"LITERARY PARABLES," "THE FINER SPIRIT," &c.

LONDON: AT THE UNICORN
VII CECIL COURT W.C.
MCMII

TO
THE LORD WINDSOR
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER

CONTENTS

TO THE PRIVATE MEMBER

TO THE TRUE-BORN BRITON
      (After Peace Night.)

TO THE CAMBRIDGE CREW

TO DAN LENO
      (On his appearance at Sandringham.)

TO THE POPE

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
      (Touching his audience of the King.)

TO THE TSAR
      (After Dunkirk.)

TO DAN LENO

TO THE POET LAUREATE

TO THE AMERICAN INVADER

TO THE "MUDDIED OAF"

TO A PUBLISHER

TO AN HOTEL KEEPER

TO THE MAN WITH A GUN

TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE
      (On its Centenary.)

TO THE LORD MAYOR
      (November 9th.)

TO THE MOTORIST

TO NEXT CHRISTMAS

TO THE TRIPPER

TO THE GLASGOW MAGISTRATES
      (On their proposal to banish barmaids.)

TO A BOOKSELLER

TO THE DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER

TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
      (Before his retirement.)

TO THE COMMON GOLFER

TO MR. PIERPONT MORGAN

TO PRINCE EDWARD OF YORK
      (On the return of the "Ophir.")

TO MME. BERNHARDT

TO SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT

TO THE KING'S BULLDOG

TO THE DAILY MAIL
      (August 3, 1901.)

TO EVERYBODY

TO THE PRIVATE MEMBER

My dear Sir,—
You may think it unkind of me
To interrupt the peaceful calm of your holiday
With a poem about business.
But I assure you, my dear sir,
That I do so with the very best intentions,
And at the call of what I consider to be duty.
Duty, as you know, is a tremendous abstraction,
And brings a man into all sorts of difficult corners.
It was duty that took you into Parliament:
Similarly it is duty that constrains me to Odes.
When a man sees another man and pities him,
It is the duty of the first man to let the other man know about it
Delicately.
I pity you, my dear Mr. Private Member,
From the bottom of a bottomless heart.
Many a time and oft in the course of my rambles
Through the lobbies and liquor bars of St. Stephens
It has been my ineffable portion to run across you—
Silk