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...troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent. He wrote "The Ballad of the Goodly Fere," an account of the Crucifixion by Simon Zelotes, hard-bitten mariner. The Goodly Fere bids his captors let his comrades go, "Or I'll see ye damned" says...
...present do not mingle gracefully. The present is too red-blooded. And so we see a dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again...
Newspaper headlines, ferryboat rides, a visit to her photographer's studio, the radio craze, furnish young Miss Crane with themes for her quaint, circumloquacious cadenzas. She puts pinions on tortoises and sapphires in the eyes of moles. She writes a "Ballad of Valley Forge," and a fine ballad it is, to the tune of "The Eagles They Fly High in Mobile, in Mobile" (or "Drink Her Down"). And sometimes she contemplates the purely inane, just for fun- The ritual and the microtome...
...covered about 3000 miles during the tour and ended up with a lot of enthusiasm at Babylon, Long Island, September 11. When things were going rather discouragingly in the middle of the summer on account of the weather, J. L. Shuke, formerly of "47" Workshop, composed a ballad which we all added to and modified during the tour. It was sung during our wanderings on the highway and was really quite inspiring. Set to the tune of Columbia, Gem of the Ocean', it goes as follows...