SERIO-COMIC VERSE. 641 



Let us damn with faint praise Bishop Butler, in whom many 



atoms combined 

 To form that remarkable structure, it pleased him to call 



his mind. 

 Last, praise we the noble body to which, for the time, we 



belong, 

 Ere yet the swift whirl of the atoms has hurried us, ruth- 



less, along, 

 The British Association like Leviathan worshipped by 



Hobbes, 



The incarnation of wisdom, built up of our witless nobs, 

 Which will carry on endless discussions, when I, and prob- 



ably you, 

 Have melted in infinite azure in English, till all is blue. 



Translation of " Notes on the President's Address, British 

 Association, 1874." By R. ShUleto. 



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