The sun., 1900-12-29
The Crime OF the Century.

1t requires small provocation 70 lead
Sir EDWIN ARNOLD to break, and break
badly, into rhymed or unryhmed Arnoldcse
1t was too much 20 expect that the century
would be permitted to die In peace without
having TO listen TO any remarks Of sir
EDwINs. The good man. so very much
better than his verses. had TO write couple
Of sonnets. al least couple OF things with
fourteen lines apiece and the Independent
pitied him and published them. In Sonnet
One Britannia talks TO Columbia. Daughter
and unorowned Sister-Queon and Friend. a
line of the honeyed Hay-Pauncefote school.
Britannia informs Friend Columbia that
the year wanes and with that the Hundred
Year," Capitals are an important requisite
of Arnoldese. Britannia says. in effect.
that she is well along In life while Friend
Columbia is youthful:
-Iooid what slvered
Mngle with gold under MY diaden:
While thy fair brads unfuiefed by all shocks.
Shine hyac!nthine. Grea: landl iasten them
Fearless. with fresh stars. meath thy Phrygian
cap"
In short. Britannia sings the beautiful
ballad, Silver Threads among the Gold"
Hyaclnthine Is not an adjective that We
should naturally connect with " fair braits
but possibly sir EDWIN means lovely
and intends no suggestion OF color Great
Landl il vigorous phrase. although
scarcely equal TO Great Scott, The
direction about fresh stars shows that
Sir EDWIN wants Oklahoma. Arizona and
H., .,l
come the New Years gift and address:
.I send thee motheIly kiss and benson:
Love me. or love me not hap wha, may hap
My pride and prayers watch thy bhgh, course
begun:
Thou dost uphold the lessons learned frum me.
And speak $, my SHARHsPYARE's speech: -GoD
go with theeiT
Very kind Of Britannia, 10 be sure, We
can see the editor OF the Saturday Reriep
praying. with all his staF gathered about
him, for the bright course begun. But
should not the last line read
"speah'st thou my ARNoLD's speech' GOD pity
tteei"
Now Columbia acknowledges the COM
pliment and male and female rhymes begin
to clinch and sputter:
Mothen | send Thy proud kiss back TO thee
by subtler wire than whauoever ties
Thy shores and niue, beneath the severins SEA-
The bond Of breed. OF kindred blood that tles
Glad 10 my cheek a, this thy salulstion.
have been telfwilled, l shall be agsin.
But thine 70 me is not another nation;
Ny knee, not wont 10 bend. to-day Is fain
To make thee courtesy for AL thine ages.
For that same reverend silver In thy hair:
For all Thy famous worthless statesmen, ssgcsI
GOD 60 with thee, II thy foes too much dare
think shall no more b, kept asunder
Than two grea, clouds in heaven that hold tho
thunder"
There are a good many breeds and kim
dred bloods in the United States. but all
Of them ought 10 fnd Joy in the beautiful
line.
"Ihave bsen sei-wllled. / shan be again
In moments OF sels-wiu. the thought that
England is not another nation l. lost. But
ono solemn thought cannot be lost. How
can there be permanent peace between
tho United States and Great Britain IL the
latter continues to allow Sir EDWIN ARNOLD
TO submit the Yankees TO cruel. although,
unfortunately, not unusual punishment
The electrical discharge which he foresees
will be OF wrath and not Of sympathy:
"Dc'u ny with ,h~el II s,ln thy horn mus, biars,
Sonnets and son 2. Il st!r thou wilt hr writing
YouI Uncle SAM and DULL rnusttaketo hghunr.-
We are wiling TO admit that Sir EpwIS
IL a worthy. If not sage, but for tho
sake OF humanity and the peace Of the
next century he should doiY hls singing
robes and burn his rhyming dictionary.