Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927, Young, Ellsworth, [from old catalog] illus · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 26
t. Good queen, make me a sailor! And so good Queen Elizabeth Gave him a high position —He drew his pay like drawing breath And led an expeditionThat sailed across the raging seas For gold and slaves and cocoa.And battled with the biting breeze Along the Orinoco. Alas! It may have been the cloak… … HAKSPEARE Shakspeare, as all of us have read. Once asked: Whats in a name?An alias for the rose, he said. Would make it smell the same.But Shakspeare was so frivolous — Excuse us if we sayThat it has always seemed to usHis work was mostly play. As Shaxpere, Shakspere, Shaikspeare, too. His…
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