Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1654/Dream of a Spelling-Bee

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1569449Littell's Living Age, Volume 128, Issue 1654 — Dream of a Spelling-Bee

DREAM OF A SPELLING-BEE

Menageries where sleuth-hounds caracole.
Where jaguar phalanx and phlegmatic gnu
Fright ptarmigan and kestrels cheek by jowl
With peewit and precocious cockatoo;

Gaunt seneschals, in crotchety cockades.
With seine-nets trawl for porpoise in lagoons;
While scullions gauge erratic escapades
Of madrepores in water-logged galleons:
 
Flamboyant triptychs groined with gherkins green.
In reckless fracas with coquettish bream,
Ecstatic gurgoyles, with grotesque chagrin.
Garnish the gruesome nightmare of my dream!

Punch.